MTA: Smart card technology by 2014

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Bus and subway riders will be able to abandon the MetroCard and use debit or credit cards to ride anywhere in the city by 2014, according to the MTA.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the first time set a target date for a no-swipe smart-card system to be in full use after years of studies and pilot programs.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/09/25/2009-09-25_mta_smart_card_tech_by_2014.html#ixzz0S8ep0FPP

5PM, Sep 26 2009

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The MTA has, for a couple of years, been trialling...on some Subway lines. According
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