The MetroCard Goes the Way of the Token as M.T.A. Announces End of Sales
The transition to the new tap-and-go system for New York City subway and bus riders is expected to save the agency at least ...
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 ...
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NYC Says Goodbye the MetroCard
The MetroCard has been a staple of New York City commutes since it was introduced in 1993. The swipe-able cards replaced subway tokens when those were discontinued in 2003. In recent years ...
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MTA to stop selling MetroCards by the end of the year
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain's New York Business Wednesday. MetroCards have been around since 1994, but now seem destined to go the way of the subway token, which stopped being used ...
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Vintage video shows what NYC subway was like in the 1940s
The first subway token wasn't used until 1953. Video courtesy of the New York Transit Museum Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Transportation The New York Transit Museum archives have this ...