{"id":414561,"date":"2017-10-23T18:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=414561"},"modified":"2017-10-23T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:44:56","slug":"mta-to-start-phasing-out-metrocards-in-2019-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=414561","title":{"rendered":"MTA to Start Phasing Out MetroCards in 2019, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171023\/central-harlem\/contactless-metrocard-subway-turnstile-mta-metropolitan-transit-authority\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171023\/central-harlem\/contactless-metrocard-subway-turnstile-mta-metropolitan-transit-authority\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171023\/central-harlem\/contactless-metrocard-subway-turnstile-mta-metropolitan-transit-authority\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171023\/central-harlem\/contactless-metrocard-subway-turnstile-mta-metropolitan-transit-authority#\" class=\"js-modal media-modal not-active\" title=\"Turnstile \"><img class=\"vital xs-xxxlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/extralarge-4.jpg\" alt=\" The old system will be fully phased out by 2023.&nbsp; \" \/><\/a> The old system will be fully phased out by 2023.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171023\/central-harlem\/contactless-metrocard-subway-turnstile-mta-metropolitan-transit-authority#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" The old system will be fully phased out by 2023.&nbsp; \">View Full Caption<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>DNAinfo\/Gwynne Hogan<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK CITY &mdash; The MetroCard is about to expire.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA will roll out a&nbsp;&#8220;contactless&#8221; payment system while phasing out&nbsp;MetroCards&nbsp;starting in 2019, agency officials said at a Monday board meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The transit authority is expected to sign a $540&nbsp;million contract with&nbsp;California-based&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubic.com\/Transportation\" target=\"_blank\">Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc.<\/a>&nbsp;to have electronic payments up and running at 500 turnstiles and in 600 buses by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The electronic&nbsp;system will allow riders to pay for fares with a mobile app, a digital wallet, &#8220;contactless&#8221; bank cards or an MTA-issued &#8220;contactless&nbsp;card,&#8221;&nbsp;according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414562,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414565,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414561\/revisions\/414565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/414562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}