Does this happen to you when you use your metrocard?

[Jaydata]

Originally Posted by mayorofnyc

Don't even get me started on those "free" Metrocard transfers. Oh and another rant, why can't I no longer use bus transfers to get on the subway?? Back in the day I remember being able to get a transfer from the bus driver and being able to use it to get on the train. So now I gotta spend another $2.25 to hop on the subway?? Ridiculous

What? You can't do that anymore? I thought it's free to transfer from
subway to bus and vice versa with metrocard.

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by Jaydata

What? You can't do that anymore? I thought it's free to transfer from
subway to bus and vice versa with metrocard.

It is free. But the MetroCard transfer between bus and subway (or subway and bus) is only good for three hours after you first swipe your pass. Wait longer than that to make the transfer, and you're paying full fare again. Mayorofnyc is evidently not telling us the whole story.

[omigawd]

It is free within the 3 hour time frame, but there are many times it doesn't work and you get charged another fare. It's happened to me coming directly from a bus to the subway or from a crosstown bus to an up/downtown bus.

[Chicken Underwear]

MetroCards are great. I could make a living putting together the pieces of fares left all over the streets of NYC

What You Do Not Know Because You Are Not Me!: On MetroCards

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

And what's interesting is that the booth workers allow you to go through like it's no big deal. It's like they expect it to happen all the time and people come to them often about it.

They didn't use to.....one time when it happened to me I had to not only buy a new Metrocard, but fill in and send out all this paperwork just to get a check for a couple of bucks by the MTA 2 months later. Bureaucracy at its finest! You're right, tokens were better.