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NYC subway fare will increase to $3 in 2025

December 20, 2024 0
NYC subway fare will increase to $3 in 2025

If you were outraged when the MTA changed the price of a subway ride from $2.75 to $2.90 in 2023, then you might want to take a seat before reading this: In their last board meeting of the year, the MTA just approved yet another fare hike that will make a single ride on the city's trains and buses a whopping $3, compared to the current $2.90.

The MTA's fare increases happen every two years, which means that the $3 fare would go into effect starting August 2025. 

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Although the MTA didn't confirm the new price of a single ticket, a $3 fare would be consistent with the approximately 4% price increase that the transit authority has implemented every two years since 2009. "We know it's coming every couple of years and we know it's going to be four percent as opposed to NJ transit which imposed on its riders this summer a 15% fare increase, out of the blue," said Lisa Daglian, who works at the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA. We're here for the Jersey shade!

The MTA attributes the price hikes to slight pension increases and health benefits it provides to its employees. And, at the very least, we're finally seeing some improvements to some of the trains—Notably, the retirement of those old derelict trains with orange and yellow seats, which will be replaced with newer, high-tech R211/R211S trains that actually feel like they're from this century.

New Yorkers, of course, had something to say about the price hike, as they do.

Subway commuters aren't the only ones who should get ready to pay up: The $9 congestion pricing hikes will be implemented starting January 5, 2025. 


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