Reminder from the MTA: Fares and Tolls to increase this Sunday, March 22
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is reminding the public that previously announced fare and toll increases will go into effect on Sunday. Details of the new fare and toll rates and ways to save are available at MTA.info along with a new MetroCard bonus calculator.
The increases are part of a pattern that began in 2009 for modest, predictable, regularly scheduled increases to take place every other year. A budget announcement in July 2014 confirmed that a fare increase would be needed in 2015. The details of this increase were proposed in mid-November and approved by the MTA Board in late January after a public hearing process that involved eight public hearings throughout the region, and four sessions that encouraged customers to create and submit videotaped comments for MTA review. The MTA Board selected options that offered better deals for the MTA’s most frequent customers.
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