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Eleven screens of OMNY

Posted by Joe on Mon Jun 10 03:11:03 2019

The Staten Island Advance website explains eleven different screens a person might see on an OMNY reader, some on bus, others at turnstiles.
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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by TransitChuckG on Mon Jun 10 05:04:25 2019, in response to Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe on Mon Jun 10 03:11:03 2019.

    Thanks for posting that! Joe

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by chicagomotorman on Mon Jun 10 09:40:58 2019, in response to Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe on Mon Jun 10 03:11:03 2019.

    What does OMNY stand for.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Pragmatist on Mon Jun 10 09:48:15 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by chicagomotorman on Mon Jun 10 09:40:58 2019.

    One Metro New York

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by randyo on Mon Jun 10 14:19:51 2019, in response to Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe on Mon Jun 10 03:11:03 2019.

    What is the situation for employee passes?

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 10 15:42:11 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by randyo on Mon Jun 10 14:19:51 2019.

    They are still MetroCards.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by randyo on Mon Jun 10 15:58:48 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 10 15:42:11 2019.

    That’s obvious now but what happens when Metrocards become history like the tokens?

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Joe V on Mon Jun 10 16:03:19 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by randyo on Mon Jun 10 15:58:48 2019.

    Just like there are color-coded EZPasses for officials, they'll be some sort of official OMNY card.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 10 16:06:22 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by randyo on Mon Jun 10 15:58:48 2019.

    Obviously they'll have OMNY-enabled employee passes. I mean there isn't even an OMNY card now! Why expect employee passes to be a thing now?

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jun 11 09:17:17 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Pragmatist on Mon Jun 10 09:48:15 2019.

    Thank you. That makes more sense than Ventra.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 09:30:04 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jun 11 09:17:17 2019.

    Why? Chicago is the Urbs Ventosa.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by pragmatist on Tue Jun 11 10:02:08 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 09:30:04 2019.

    Let's see how this all works when fully rolled out. I believe Cubic is the vendor for both Ventra and Omni, as well as many other fare systems around the world. What each agency decides to include is the great variable..

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 10:11:57 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by pragmatist on Tue Jun 11 10:02:08 2019.

    I can't wait to try it.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jun 11 10:42:26 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 09:30:04 2019.

    More people know Chicago as the Windy City. It should have been called the Windy City card.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 11:00:44 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jun 11 10:42:26 2019.

    Ventra is Latin.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jun 11 11:22:10 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 11:00:44 2019.

    Windy city is in English.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Joe V on Tue Jun 11 15:05:41 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 11:00:44 2019.

    Don't people in Chicago from Latin America speak Latin ? (Dan Quayle).

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 16:23:06 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe V on Tue Jun 11 15:05:41 2019.

    Quebec is part of Latin America.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by chicagomotorman on Wed Jun 12 10:03:45 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe V on Tue Jun 11 15:05:41 2019.

    When did he say that?

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by chicagomotorman on Wed Jun 12 10:04:03 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 16:23:06 2019.

    It is?

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 12:17:46 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by chicagomotorman on Wed Jun 12 10:04:03 2019.

    French is equally based on Latin as Spanish and Portuguese.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Joe V on Wed Jun 12 13:20:25 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by chicagomotorman on Wed Jun 12 10:03:45 2019.

    Around 1990

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by randyo on Wed Jun 12 13:33:32 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 12:17:46 2019.

    Don’t forget Romanian.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 13:48:18 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by randyo on Wed Jun 12 13:33:32 2019.

    There are no Romanian colonies in America, so irrelevant.

    I've always wondered why there are no Venetian colonies. They were not innovative enough to shift to building ships for the Atlantic.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 13:48:48 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe V on Wed Jun 12 13:20:25 2019.

    No, he didn't.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Joe on Wed Jun 12 15:05:07 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 13:48:18 2019.

    Someone posted, "There are no Romanian colonies in America." I note three Romanian churches near the M stations of Fresh Pond Road and Forest Avenue."
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    The NYCTA subway sign makers have sometimes posted Polish service notices in Greenpoint and Chinese service notices at Canal Street. I wonder whether the non-English service notices in Ridgewood are in Polish, Romanian, German, Spanish, Italian, Slovak, or Serbian.
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    From Yelp's restaurant guide, it appears that there is a Romanian colony in Sunnyside.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 16:59:19 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe on Wed Jun 12 15:05:07 2019.

    WTF?

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Pragmatist on Wed Jun 12 17:01:31 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe on Wed Jun 12 15:05:07 2019.

    Surprisingly, it's grammatical structure is very similar to Latin. But while there are most certainly Romanian clusters in Queens, it is pretty far down on the lengthy list of languages spoken here.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 17:53:20 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Pragmatist on Wed Jun 12 17:01:31 2019.

    Why surprising? Are you saying Romanian’s grammatical structure is closer to Classical Latin than other Romance languages?

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Pragmatist on Wed Jun 12 18:13:32 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 17:53:20 2019.

    Yes

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 13 06:46:33 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Joe on Wed Jun 12 15:05:07 2019.

    Since there was no further response to my incredulous "WTF":

    It was obvious I meant a colony in the sense of "Mexico was a Spanish colony." And not in the sense of an ethnic enclave. I have NEVER heard the word colony used in the sense of an ethnic enclave. Clearly the Romanian Government (which was not sovereign for most of the era of colonization) did not sponsor an expedition to North America seeking a colony in the name of the Romanian crown to be run by Romanians.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by AlM on Thu Jun 13 08:31:22 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 13:48:18 2019.

    But there was a Little Venice. :)

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by AlM on Thu Jun 13 08:33:40 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 13 06:46:33 2019.

    I have NEVER heard the word colony used in the sense of an ethnic enclave.

    I have, but it was obvious that you weren't doing that.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 13 08:44:48 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by AlM on Thu Jun 13 08:31:22 2019.

    Wow. Did not know that.

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by Snilcher on Thu Jun 13 13:07:34 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 12 12:17:46 2019.

    Speaking of which, there's been some discussion about the difference, if any, between the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino" when referring to people with origins in various Western Hemisphere nations.

    My own take on this, not that anybody else follows it, is that "Hispanic" should refer exclusively to Spanish-speaking populations and "Latino" can refer to any country south of the USA border. So Brazilians would be Latino but not Hispanic. However, logic doesn't always dictate usage,

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    Re: Eleven screens of OMNY

    Posted by transitbuff on Thu Jun 13 13:38:38 2019, in response to Re: Eleven screens of OMNY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 11 10:11:57 2019.

    You may have to wait... if people are ahead of you.

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