Starting March 1, riders using OMNY will pay for each ride until they spend $33 in a week, the price of a seven-day unlimited MetroCard. After that, their rides for the week will be free
Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images The MTA is well on its way to replacing MetroCards with OMNY in 2023: The cardless tap-to-pay system is now in every subway station and on every bus, and one in six fares are paid with a tap. But so far, OMNY hasn’t had an option for unlimited rides. That changed, at least temporarily, with the MTA’s announcement on Wednesday of a new fare-capping promotional deal: Starting March 1, riders will tap to pay $2.
OMNY users have been asking for a MetroCard-style fare discount ever since the system was launched in 2019. But it’s not early adopters who have the most to gain here: Fare capping means that lower-income riders avoid the upfront investment that an unlimited card requires. Everyone will, effectively, pay that weekly $33 in increments as they use the system, instead of in one shot.
Right now, the fare cap is an attempt to lure back riders . Toward that same goal, the MTA is also rolling out new discounted Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North ticket packs. But state lawmakers see it more in terms of the equity question: They want to make sure that the switch to OMNY means no one spends more than the price of an unlimited card on subway rides. State Senator Andrew Gounardes introduced a bill in late October that would make something like the new promotional cap permanent.
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