Workers in the few still-active New York Subway booths will no longer accept cash or exchange damaged MetroCards, otherwise passengers will have to mail them in for replacements.
These transactions, which had been temporarily halted in March 2020 to protect workers from the COVID, have now become definitive.
The Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) also justified that the touch and pay system (OMNY) established to fully replace MetroCards by the end of 2023 will eliminate the need for workers to assist passengers with cash transactions.
“This decision is a crime against poor people, we have to stop it completely ”, denounced on Twitter the State Senator Julia Salazar.
“We currently do not plan to resume cash transactions at the booths,” MTA security director Patrick Warren said yesterday during a news conference. Passengers will still be able to use cash to pay for MetroCards at the automatic vending machines at the stations, which will eventually be replaced by those of the system OMNY, which will also accept tickets, bounded Daily News.
This decision is a crime against poor people, full stop. https://t.co/QGQpp9skV3
– Julia Salazar (@JuliaCarmel__) June 24, 2021
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