The MTA’s low cost ticket for commuter rail riders who keep throughout the 5 boroughs has now saved straphangers greater than $100 million, Gov. Hochul stated Monday.
“For years, residents of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens had high-quality rail service right at their doorsteps, but the fare was too high,” Hochul stated in an announcement memorializing the milestone. “By making LIRR and Metro-North service more affordable for city riders, we have welcomed millions of new customers, getting New Yorkers out of their cars and onto fast, reliable rail service in and out of Manhattan.”
The CityTicket permits passengers to trip the Lengthy Island Rail Street or Metro-North for $7 a technique throughout peak hours or $5 throughout off-peak — so long as their journey begins and ends inside New York’s metropolis limits.
Since March 2022, when this system — which started as a pilot in January 2004 — expanded to incorporate all off-peak trains, 37.2 million CityTickets have been bought, in keeping with the governor’s workplace. Peak-hour trains have been included in 2023.
In an announcement, MTA Chairman Janno Lieber known as this system “a smash success.”
“It’s another proof point that low-cost, reliable transit is one of our most important solutions to the affordability crisis, especially for folks outside Manhattan,” he stated.
CityTicket was initially proposed in 2001 by the Everlasting Residents Advisory Committee to the MTA. It started in 2004 as a weekends-only ticket choice. Present PCAC head Lisa Daglian welcomed the milestone.
Daglian stated she and PCAC have been persevering with to advocate for a weekly CityTicket choice with free transfers to the New York Metropolis subway. The same ticket for LIRR riders, often known as the Atlantic Ticket, was discontinued in 2023.
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