New York City subway and bus fares are expected to go up to $3 on Jan. 4, MTA officials announced during the agency’s monthly ...

New York City’s public transportation agency will delay a planned fare and toll increase to January, just as the bus, train ...

MTA proposes a fare increase to $3 and a 7.5% toll hike, signaling a MetroCard phaseout for the OMNY system by 2026.

MTA officials had previously said high rates of fare evasion on buses were the reason it hadn’t expanded OMNY on local bus routes. Nearly half of riders on local buses do not pay the fare.

The MTA’s aim, she said, is to make the OMNY system “bulletproof” by the time the agency sunsets the MetroCard and moves to full tap-and-go.

WHAT TO KNOW The MTA is moving ahead with a scaled-down plan to bring its contactless fare payment system, OMNY, to the Long Island Rail Road by 2026 — five years later than originally planned.

The reduced-fare metrocard now has a modern counterpart in the tap-to-pay OMNY system. MTA officials began mailing the cards to the 1.5 million enrolled reduced-fare straphangers this week.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — As the MTA is transitioning from the use of MetroCards to OMNY tap-and-go, commuters have expressed a flurry of complaints with operating the new system. To take note of ...

Transportation OMNY ‘crushes MetroCard’ in ridership polls, MTA says Published: Jul. 14, 2025, 1:04 p.m.