MTA to stop selling MetroCards by end of 2025

Alert: The MTA will stop selling MetroCards by the end of the year
MTA Chair Janno Lieber just revealed that the MTA will likely retire MetroCards by the end of 2025, going all-in on OMNY by next summer.
MetroCard sales ending this year, MTA says. Here's when they will be phased out.
The MTA started installing OMNY, a contactless fare payment system, back in 2019, and the agency has been in the process of phasing out MetroCard machines over the past few years. The OMNY system allows riders to pay with their cellphone, smart watch, credit, debit or prepaid cards without having to purchase and swipe a physical card.
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The phase out of the old vinyl swipe cards comes after the MTA's rollout of its tap-to-pay fare system faced years of delays.
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MetroCards have reigned supreme in the Big Apple since its introduction in 1993. The OMNY of its time, the originally blue cards replaced subway tokens, which were only sold in packs of ten, and introduced the city to the world of free transfers.
First the token, now the swipe: NYC's subway system to stop selling MetroCards
The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain’s New York Business Wednesday.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Recently, the New York City Department of Social Services announced that the Fair Fares program would begin using the MTA’s OMNY fare payment system. This program, which offers eligible New Yorkers a 50% discount on subway, bus and para-transit fares, will soon switch from MetroCards to tap-to-pay OMNY cards.
MTA plans MetroCard retirement
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to stop issuing and refilling its ubiquitous orange and blue MetroCards at the end of the year, relying on its tap-and-go OMNY system for fare payment in the subway and on city buses, transit officials told Crain’s.
MTA to stop selling MetroCards by the end of the year
The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain’s New York Business Wednesday.
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