Over the coming years it will be gradually rolled out across the network – scheduled to be completed by 2023. But there will be no physical Omny card until 2021, after which the MetroCard will be taken out of service two and a half years later. Byford said similar modernised payment systems in London, Sydney and Toronto, cities in which he has also worked, have been “transformative”. At the ticket machine, where he was topping up his MetroCard, Brian Steinhardt, 48, a lawyer from Tribeca, said he would Omny in the future: “I don’t like the MetroCard. Instead if you had money on your card you’d just tap it and go.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2019 05:01 UTC