The new fares approved by the MTA board will go into effect on April Image via the MTA. You may have faced this dilemma when refilling your Metrocard: Is it worth it to shell out for an unlimited-ride MetroCard or just pay per ride?
But the calculator rates will soon be as outdated as subway token. On Feb. The MTA will also do away with pay-per-ride bonuses that add a few extra bucks to you card when you pay for more than one or two rides.
The calculator, as well as other sections of the MTA website, advise customers to purchase a pay-per-ride MetroCard if they ride the subway or local bus fewer than 13 times per week or 47 times per month.
So what kind of card is correct when fares increase on April 21? The day unlimited card is worth the price if you take the subway or local bus more than 46 times per month. That, of course, makes the monthly card a better bet for people taking the subway most days of the month. Transit advocates who spoke to the Eagle last week seem to agree.
It needs to deliver, and do its job by passing congestion pricing. Queens for life. Physically, the card looks identical regardless of which mode it is currently in, so you can't tell the difference unless you swipe it at a card reader. Children under 44 inches cm.
The children can just walk underneath the turnstile. The regular MetroCard also known as a Pay-Per-Ride card carries a real dollar value that decreases every time you take the subway hence "pay per ride". You can keep on adding value to the card whenever your balance runs low. Pay-Per-Ride cards can be shared by up to four people. To share a card, you can swipe the card multiple times to let multiple people through the turnstiles.
You can do this individually by swiping the MetroCard, letting the first person enter, swiping it again to let the next person enter, and so on, or you can swipe the card multiple times back to back and then let the corresponding number of people walk through the turnstiles. You can combine the values of multiple Pay-Per-Ride cards by going to the information booth and asking the attendant to combine them for you. Unlimited Ride cards allow you to ride the subway and buses as often as you want, as long as the time window that you bought for the card hasn't passed.
There are only two time windows available:. Sorry, there aren't any single-day or weekend passes. If you think you are going to make more than 12 individual trips a very likely scenario for tourists staying more than two days , buying a 7-Day Unlimited Ride card will be cheaper than paying 12 times. The time window does not activate until you swipe the card for the very first time at a turnstile to enter the system. For instance, you can buy the card on January 17, activate it on April 1, and it will expire at midnight between April 7 and April 8.
Unlimited cards always expire exactly at midnight on the 7th or 30th day , regardless of the time you activated the card on the first day. For instance, if you activate a 7-Day Unlimited Ride card on Monday morning, it will expire Sunday night at midnight. If you activate the card Monday evening at pm, it still expires Sunday night at midnight.
As a result, you effectively get to use it only for 6 days and 30 minutes. In that case, you are better off paying for a single ride using the Pay-Per-Ride card and then activating the Unlimited Ride card the next morning. Unlimited Ride cards cannot be shared by two people. In fact, there is a roughly minute delay between each swipe to prevent the card from being used by more than one person. As noted before, on the back of every MetroCard you'll find a printed physical expiration date.
Do not confuse the printed physical card expiration date with the paid expiration of the Unlimited Ride time window. A card can carry "time ", "value", or both. In other words, you can add a dollar value to an Unlimited Ride card or buy time to an existing Pay-Per-Ride card. When this happens, the time portion always takes precedence when you swipe it at a turnstile it will activate the time window as necessary.
After the time portion of the card has expired, it will then and only then start draining the value of your card. This also implies that you cannot use this card with multiple people as a second swipe on the card will be denied as "Just used" despite the card carrying monetary value in addition.
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