Gothamist: The Bounty of Expired Metrocards

charles

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:50:46 -0500

I've had cards expire after reloading them over and over without paying attention to the expiration date. I didn't know that I could transfer the balance on an expired card for a new one, but asked before I threw the old card away.

poor grad student

Sun, 29 May 2005 09:27:50 -0500

Expired card with money still on it? Didn't know that was possible. I have the exact opposite problem.

Kojak

Sat, 28 May 2005 15:51:03 -0500

True. Speaking from experience, compared to a lot of the world's subway systems, Ours just might be the Shittiest. But then i havent been to Mexico yet...

The way it is

Sat, 28 May 2005 13:01:53 -0500

Trust me--a lot of tourists aren't exactly enamored of the NYC subway as a source of transportation. I remember once overhearing a couple of tourists on a crowded, dirty train who were making comparisons of the NYC subway with travel in the third world.

Kojak

Fri, 27 May 2005 20:56:38 -0500

Frank Frank Frank . . . Don't let those little wussy tourists get you down. If they are in your way on the wrong side of the stairs taking their sweet time, you have to learn to push them out of the way and curse a lot while your doing it. And I agree to some extent with jacking up the fare, but I'd rather bar tourists from using the subway, period. They can walk to their destinations or take the cab, not hold us up on the train. As for those pesky metrocards with money left on them. WhO CaReS? I have an Unlimited! Weeeeeeee Why does the MTA care anyway if people left money on their metrocards? Once you pay for the card, the MTA already cashes in. They love it when fares go unused.

In no hurry

Fri, 27 May 2005 16:10:27 -0500

Hey, I'm telling 'ya, there's money on them there cards. Whenever I need to check the balance on my metrocard on that MTA machine, it seems like I'm always stuck behind the subway cleaner guy who is swiping the dozens of metrocards he's found in the subway.

Ed

Fri, 27 May 2005 08:53:33 -0500

Do we look rich? 10 bucks for a fun pass, with your mentality the MTA is going to have another fare hike because no one will be purchasing the card.

Frank Gorshin

Fri, 27 May 2005 08:41:07 -0500

The MTA should raise the One Day Fun Pass to 10 dollars and include a brouchure for the tourists including do not get to the stop of the stairs, and stop to figure out, where Macy's is at 34th St. The city really should educate tourists on how to walk sidewalks and how to enter and exit the subway. with the re-surgance of tourists in NYC, they should be forced to pay as much as possible, we shouldn't be paying for them