All NYC public school students to get OMNY Cards instead of MetroCards next year

The city will distribute free OMNY Cards instead of MetroCards to the city's 1.1 million public school students next year.

The city will distribute free OMNY Cards instead of MetroCards to the city’s 1.1 million public school students next year, part of a push by the MTA to get more transit riders using the tap-and-go fare payment system.

While students will have to use physical OMNY Cards for the next school year, eventually the MTA says students will be able to load their free trip benefits onto their smartphone. Fewer than half of riders are paying their fare using OMNY, the MTA said Monday, with larger numbers of riders using it on the subway than the bus. About three-quarters of full-fare riders use OMNY, but just 6% of those with reduced fares are using it.

The Port Authority has launched a separate payment system for the PATH train, called TAPP , which was developed by Cubic, the same company that developed both OMNY and the MetroCard.

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