Passengers at 16 subway stations and all Staten Island buses can tap their way in with a contactless card or mobile payment service
For unseasoned passengers of the dilapidated New York City subway, successfully navigating the turnstile with a MetroCard on first swipe can be a fiddly art form – as demonstrated by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election campaign when it took her a grand total of five attempts to get through.
But this week, some of the city’s subway and bus passengers will have a more hi-tech contactless alternative to the flimsy swipe cards first launched 25 years ago as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unveiled its new payment scheme, Omny (One Metro New York).
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