The MTA board voted unanimously to raise the cost of a single ride on the subway or bus from $2.75 to $2.90.
The cost of a subway ride is going up from $2.75 to $2.90.
The cost of a seven-day unlimited MetroCard will increase from $33 to $34.
The 30-day unlimited MetroCard’s cost will increase from $127 to $132.
The express bus fare will increase from $6.75 to $7.
The seven-day unlimited express bus pass is increasing from $62 to $64.
Fares for the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad will increase by roughly 4%.
Tolls at bridges and tunnels will increase 5%.
I’d like to see more evidence that the MTA is capable of operating with any degree of financial efficiency, since its costs are astronomically higher than comparable global systems, but regardless, this isn’t a particularly heinous increase. If they don’t manage to get costs down from the stratosphere though, people are eventually going to lose (even more) faith in the agency to do anything.
Free rides are coming to five city bus routes by Sept. 24, the MTA said on Monday. MTA officials said during a committee meeting that fares won’t be collected on one route in each of the five boroughs for at least six months as part of a program mandated by the state.
The B60, which runs in Brooklyn between Williams and Flatlands Avenue, in Canarsie, and Williamsburg Bridge Plaza.
The M116, which operates across Manhattan, primarily along 116th Street, Manhattan Avenue and W 106 Street.
The Q4 LCL/LTD, which runs in southeast Queens between Cambria Heights and Jamaica Center.
The S46/96, which runs in Staten Island between the St. George Ferry Terminal and West Shore Plaza.
The BX18 A/B, which runs in a loop in the western Bronx between Undercliff Avenue or Sedgwick Avenue and Grand Concourse
