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Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 27 19:15:02 2025

If not, wouldn't it be easier for them to be abused?

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by AlM on Thu Feb 27 19:40:48 2025, in response to Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 27 19:15:02 2025.

1. No. I have one. No picture.
2. I've wondered the same thing myself.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 27 19:43:46 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by AlM on Thu Feb 27 19:40:48 2025.

The OMNY cards also don't say how much is left on the card, when you use them.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Feb 27 19:59:10 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 27 19:43:46 2025.

So how do you know if you were correctly charged? Do they indicate if you received a free transfer?

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 27 22:54:44 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Feb 27 19:59:10 2025.

So how do you know if you were correctly charged?

You don't. The only way to find out how much is left on the card is to go to a working OMNY vending machine.

Do they indicate if you received a free transfer?

The only indication is a "Go" message where you tap. Nothing about how much was deducted.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Feb 27 23:26:11 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 27 22:54:44 2025.

That means when the MTA says are introducing new transfers in Queens so no one has to pay an extra fare, those with OMNY cards won’t immediately know if they got the transfer or not. If they don’t check later, they may be paying extra fares. How many do you think will never check? How many check every charge on their credit cards? I don’t.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by Italianstallion on Fri Feb 28 15:57:12 2025, in response to Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 27 19:15:02 2025.

I have one in my pocket. They have no photo. In all my years of having a photo Metro Card, no one ever looked at my photo.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by Italianstallion on Fri Feb 28 15:58:02 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 27 22:54:44 2025.

Well, that sucks.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by AlM on Fri Feb 28 16:32:42 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 27 22:54:44 2025.

The only way to find out how much is left on the card is to go to a working OMNY vending machine.

One can also check online, which one may or may not find to be satisfactory.


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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by AlM on Fri Feb 28 16:33:54 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Italianstallion on Fri Feb 28 15:57:12 2025.

That's probably because you don't look like you're 30 any more. :)



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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 28 18:00:10 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Italianstallion on Fri Feb 28 15:57:12 2025.

. I have one in my pocket. They have no photo. In all my years of having a photo Metro Card, no one ever looked at my photo.

Yes, I've had that experience also. But I think the presence of photo makes you reluctant to let someone else use your card unless that person was an identical twin.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by Andrew Saucci on Fri Feb 28 18:55:06 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 27 22:54:44 2025.

This is progress?

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Feb 28 19:45:04 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Andrew Saucci on Fri Feb 28 18:55:06 2025.

This is progress?

If it works, it's not sophisticated.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by New Flyer #857 on Sat Mar 1 07:30:25 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Italianstallion on Fri Feb 28 15:57:12 2025.

I know younger people with qualifying disabilities that have had police stop them to look at the photo, but mostly about 15 - 20 years ago. I haven't heard of any such encounter in at least 5 to 10 years.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by B1bus on Sat Oct 18 23:19:50 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Italianstallion on Fri Feb 28 15:57:12 2025.

THe police checked my roommate over a decade ago.
also checked my station agent friend from time to time.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by B1bus on Sat Oct 18 23:21:25 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by B1bus on Sat Oct 18 23:19:50 2025.

Sorry, roommate had a disablity card, comes up green like a senior card.

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Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?

Posted by AlM on Sun Oct 19 07:22:23 2025, in response to Re: Will Reduced Fare OMNY Cards Have Photo IDs Like Metrocards?, posted by Italianstallion on Fri Feb 28 15:57:12 2025.

I have a reduced fare OMNY card now (didn't have one in February) and the same is true for me.

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