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If you make the mistake of going into the wrong side, you can exit, cross the street and talk to the token booth attendant and explain. He will invariably "buzz" you in for free.
<It happened to me last absentmindedly going into 86th St on the wrong side. I know I could have gone to 59th and down and around but that is more of a magilla than just crossing Lexington Ave. Clerk was very friendly. I ALWAYS go South, but this one time I wanted to get to Pathmark.>
If you make the mistake of going into the wrong side, you can exit, cross the street and talk to the token booth attendant and explain. He will invariably "buzz" you in for free.
<It happened to me last absentmindedly going into 86th St on the wrong side. I know I could have gone to 59th and down and around but that is more of a magilla than just crossing Lexington Ave. Clerk was very friendly. I ALWAYS go South, but this one time I wanted to get to Pathmark.>
If there's a cop at the station you can ask them too, happened to me once and he let me and my friends through.
This isn't a transfer, exactly, but sometimes people must swtich trains if they make the mistake of going in the complete wrong opposite direction on a train. It happens to me when I don't know the final station name of an unfamiliar train, or am just tired and didn't concentrate on what I was doing.
In some bigger stations, if you're lucky, it can be a free correction. You can make that reverse using stairways above and around platforms, all inside the same station. But most stations, you have to exit and re-enter, so you'll pay again because it involves the turnstile.
I did this the other day. On the L from Bedford I was going to 14th St, the train was slowing and I was at 6th Ave. I think I just found an easy way to reverse the direction but I have the Unlimited so it doesn't matter in my case. I just felt like an idiot, though no one knew it but me.
Also if you make a mistake and leave a travel bag on a train (like someone I know did but not me!), the token/metrocard booth operator will also allow you back in the system to look for it (meaning you would need to go to the end of the line and grab the bag before the cleaners remove it and have it transferred to lost & found).
You don't have to pay for a different train line in the same station. However, in certain local stops, to take the SAME train in the opposite direction, you have to exit the station and pay another $2.75. So watch out for that.
Also if you are using a pay-per-ride metrocard for 4 people (which is the max. allowed) and one doesn't through promptly and therefore 4th person can't use the card, you can explain this to a token/metrocard booth agent who will buzz you in as well.
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