Can click to pay public transportation?

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I clearly remember the first time that I used my phone to ride the metro in New York City. I have implemented my device for a transparent rectangular thing, the light turned green, and the diameter made a familiar click I invited to pay through the metal weapons. On the other side, he moved the future.

After two decades have passed a prominent pass in New York to the metro, Metrocard officially joined the copper symbol in the year of the subway history. The Capital Transport Authority (MTA) will officially stop selling yellow and iconic plastic cards by the end of the year. Credit cards and applications equipped with NFC such as Apple Pay and Google Pay are the new currency of Underground.

New York residents live with the tap to ride Omny system A few years ago, but other cities are still preparing for speed. Last month, Fast transnational Gulf region (Bart) has become the latest that provided the tap fare system to the amount, and joined the city of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Juan and Washington, DC, as cities with Fare readers NFC open episode. Many cities, such as London, had transit systems to push for years or even contracts, while others still stumble with card strikes.

But it is not all swimming. Many cyclists are still on the fence around new payment systems. Many people, especially low -income people, lack bank accounts, home internet, or even smartphones needed to use these systems. In contact payments are not completely immune from the security weaknesses that can expose individuals to fraud or theft of identity. and Transit systems throughout the country He still faces a large budget deficit, as the ride no longer returns to prenatal levels.

London was the first major city to adopt a non -communication payment system, first for buses in 2012, then for underground in 2014. In New York, the idea was wandering for years but did not gain strength until mid -2010, when state governor Andrew Como said that e -diagonists will help use the corridor system to the “twenty -first century”.

The Covid-19s has accelerated the adoption of taxis that does not come into contact with many cities. Oborn officials saw the benefits of promoting a touch -free experience during a pandemic, while allowing bikes to pay for trips in the same way that they will buy a cup of coffee.

But the model was slow to spread in the United States. Transport agencies often falter through long -term equipment contracts, and banks have failed to issue unprecedented cards. American cities, which were the first to adopt the open-to-pushing technology-Chicago and Solt Lake City-were struggled to achieve high adoption rates.

In New York, Security lapses that enabled the site Through the omny system, it raised fears that the bicycles will send the new system at the end. But MTA moves quickly to close these gaps.

It seems that success in New York was the turning point. As of July 2025, omny is used by 75 percent of the transit passengers, says MTA. If New York, through sign technology in the depression era and its decades -old stocks, can make it work, and certainly can be smaller and technician cities.

But users have some fists. After all, what is the passenger of crossing if he is not loudly complaining about everything small? According to a modern surveyMore than 40 per cent of the cyclists say they have suffered from lost or late taxi payments. Others complained of long waiting times to serve customers and lack of transparency. But in general, the Dragon gave the system the degree of success.

In San Francisco, the Bart passenger expects a nervousness of the problem of “card clash”, where the Badura becomes strict with cyclists using different types of payment methods. But let’s be real: the current Clipper card system is not all cracked.

To a large extent, all the metro -adopted metro on the open -loop fare announced plans to include unpopular and exposed cyclists. In Austin, travelers can choose to purchase paid taxi cards or download cash mobile accounts at retail sites. New York sells prepaid Omny cards at transit stations, pharmacies, podga and other store facades. But the ongoing problem is still standing: the omny and black OMNY card lacks cultural Cachet like Metrocard. Remember when Supreme Metrocard Was it the hottest in the season? You should trample omny.

More cities are expected to adopt payments without contact in the coming years. In the search for this article, I read a number of seriously written strategic documents on how to increase the ride without raising prices. Transit officials agree that payment without contact is one of the ways they can attract more cycles – which is increasingly important given the terrible transit state these days.

The ride certainly has returned back, but the levels of prenatal. Modern analysis before Bloomberg I found that the largest mass transportation systems in the United States face a collective deficit of $ 6 billion for years to come. The rescue money dating back to the era of the epidemic has dried up, and no one expects the Trump administration to suddenly cough money to save transportation agencies.

Many cities face discounts in service, raising the fare, and laying workers while trying to curb the massive operation and capital costs. Experts are concerned about the passionate “death cycle”, a course of terrible service that leads to fewer bikes, which leads to a more useful service, etc.

Nobody expects to provide payments without contact. The problems are very numerous and run very deep so that they cannot be solved by upgrading a simple group. But it is part of a list of solutions, such as simplified payments, countdown hours, and applications with applications, which can enhance crossing at its existential moment. Others argue that service improvements and street design changes are much further farther in persuading passengers to give up car -based services such as Uber and Lyft. It is still likely, all of the above.