The Single Fare art show is back! See simple MetroCards transformed into John Jacobsmeyer’s surreal multi-panel epic My Own Private Wolfenstein, nude girls swirling in bathwater by Alyssa Monks and Katrina Balling’s grinning dog entirely painted in nail polish. Read more »
If your plan for the seemingly inevitable MTA fare hikes involves the old bent MetroCard trick, you might think again. The fake fare scam, ruled forgery, could send you to prison. Besides that, skipping out on the fare doesn’t help the strapped for cash agency, not that it even put a ding in the 1.8 billion dollar budget gap, which could halt nighttime trains on top of already massive service cuts.
The MetroCard didn’t really impress New Yorkers at first, but once the free transfers option was offered, things were all good: “It was not until free MetroCard transfers between subways and buses were instituted in 1997 and the unlimited-ride cards were introduced on July 4, 1998, that the passes fully realized their power to transform the transit system.” |NYT|
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