Saturday, March 21, 2009

99.METRO CARD BUS RANSFER

The MetroCard Bus Transfer is issued when a person pays a certain required fare with exact change aboard on any bus accepting MetroCard. This bus transfer slip can be requested when you ask a bus operator for one way bus connection trip. The transfer slip is inserted into the farebox on the second bus, which retains it. Certain bus transfer fares may apply with Westchester Bee Line bus system and MTA Long Island Bus.


MTA New York City Transit bus is free to transfer from one bus to another bus that is accepted with MetroCard. The bus transfer is a paper Metrocard like the SingleRide Metrocard. This transfer does not grant cash customers subway access and does not allow inter-company transfers (except between NYCT and MTA Bus or between LIB and Suffolk Transit, as well as transfers from N4 to Q3, from N25 to Q46, and from N26 to Q46 (vice-versa is not valid).


Where the fare paid to get the transfer is less than that required on the second bus, the difference must be paid on boarding.Transit Employee MetrocardsGiven to MTA employees as a combination photo ID and Metrocard pass. All cards give free rides within the MTA system, with the exception of express buses. Cards are color-coded to match gender of employee (red is male, blue is female) Letter on the card indicates an employee's status and expiration date Cards have the standard 18-minute delay between consecutive swipes at a particular MTA facility.


Cards are integrated into MTA's time management system at various locations in the city.Accepted at:MTA New York City Transit subways and local buses MTA Bus MTA Long Island BusMTA Staten Island Railway MTA Long Island Rail Road MTA Facilities (Property Protection Unit) as displayed ID Roosevelt Island Tramway. The older blue MetroCards were not capable of the many kinds of fare options that the gold ones currently offer. The format of the magnetic stripe used by the blue MetroCard offered very little other than the standard pay-per-swipe fare. Also, gold MetroCards allow groups of people (up to four) to ride together using a single pay-per-swipe MetroCard.

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