19 Facts About OMNY

OMNY is a contactless fare payment system, currently being implemented for use on public transit in the New York metropolitan area.

When OMNY is completely rolled out, it will replace the MetroCard on the New York City Subway, the Staten Island Railway, PATH trains, MTA buses, Bee-Line buses, and NICE buses.

OMNY will expand beyond the current scope of the MetroCard to include the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad.

OMNY system is designed by Cubic Transportation Systems, using technology licensed from Transport for London's Oyster card.

OMNY began its public rollout in May 2019, with contactless bank cards and mobile payments accepted at select subway stations and on buses in Staten Island.

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The name "OMNY" was eventually chosen as being "modern and universal".

OMNY launched to the public on May 31,2019, on Staten Island buses and at 16 subway stations.

At first, OMNY only supported single-ride fares paid with contactless bank cards; mobile payments such as Apple Pay and Google Pay were accepted, and free transfers between OMNY-enabled routes were available with the same transfer restrictions placed upon the MetroCard.

The OMNY system reached one million uses within its first 10 weeks and two million uses within 16 weeks.

The next month, MTA officials announced that OMNY had seen its 5-millionth use, and that it would expand to 60 more subway stations by the end of the month.

The pandemic delayed the target date for which OMNY would be implemented at all subway stations and MTA bus routes, which was pushed back from October to December 2020.

OMNY infrastructure was installed in 2,666 buses, representing 44.

On December 31,2020, the MTA announced that OMNY was active and available on all MTA buses and at all subway stations with Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line being the last station to have its OMNY Readers activated.

OMNY cards featuring commemorative designs, as well as special fare-classes such as students, senior citizens, and MTA employees, were not available at the time of the standalone OMNY Card rollout.

The physical card was seldom used in the months after its rollout; by February 2022, less than 1 percent of all OMNY fares were being paid using a card, and 4,367 cards had been sold at stores.

Since implementation on June 1st, 2022, Reduced-fare customers now have the option of transitioning to OMNY and receiving the same benefits full-fare customers have with the weekly fare cap and flexibility of using their preferred payment method.

Users of OMNY will pay the base fare on buses, subways, and the Staten Island Railway until they have paid a total amount equal to the cost of the 7-Day Unlimited MetroCard option for fares within a single week, upon which they do not pay fares for subsequent trips.

All transfers with MetroCard or OMNY are free from bus to subway, local bus to local bus, and subway to local bus.

OMNY solves this problem by only charging riders once a day, after vehicles have had a chance to return to base and download boarding data.