"Anyone that owns a cell phone is sending your personal information, data movements, shopping your everything to someone already anyway," she said. Regarding the potential to collect vast amounts of data from riders, Ditmore said, it's happening already. New York City Transit President Andy Byford and Chrissy Ditmore, the director of strategy for Cubic Transportation System, addressed this during a UK International trade fair panel Wednesday. Given the new electronic system's reliance on smartphones, it also raises questions about privacy and data collection. Welcome to the modern world, NYC /6g0Y8nddzs To install the new system, MTA has partnered again with Cubic, the same company that installed MetroCard readers throughout the city and that's developed the likes of London's Oyster card and Chicago's Ventra.ĭamn look at these beautiful card reader MTA turnstiles. Now it has an NFC OMNY card reader for the next iteration of fare payment. Then it had a magnetic stripe MetroCard reader bolted onto it. This turnstile started life accepting tokens. OMNY, which stands for One Metro New York, will completely replace the dreaded swipe by 2023 (Straphangers will be able to use MetroCards until then, though). It's still possible to buy an OMNY card itself to get through (and with cash), and people who don't have a smartphone can purchase this "contactless OMNY" beginning in 2021, according to a letter that the newly-minted MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye sent to employees in February. Those who prefer using the MTA app or cellphone wallets, like Google Pay, can do that, too.
To use OMNY, people can wave their smartphones or a contactless bank card to get through the turnstile. It's worth noting that other ways to get around the city, including the NYC Ferry and the PATH train, are not yet included in the OMNY rollout, as amNew York reports. OMNY is expected to launch for MTA customers at those stations in May.įrom there, the new system will gradually spread to include commuter rails such as the Long Island Railroad, as well as subway and bus lines throughout the boroughs.
For the next few weeks, MTA employees will be testing out the new readers, which will first run through 16 subway stations from Grand Central-42nd Street to Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, and the SIM30 express bus in Staten Island. The new card readers are the first part of a pilot program the MTA is unveiling throughout the spring. On Twitter and Reddit, straphangers have reported seeing the shiny, retrofitted tap card readers at the likes of Borough Hall, Bowling Green, Bleecker Street, and 28th Streets, at the entrances to the 4, 5, and 6 lines. OMNY, the MTA's new tap card system, has been spotted at several subway stations throughout the city in recent weeks.
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