# Fucking MTA **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-mta/473680 "2008-11-20T18:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-mta/473680/21 "2008-11-22T00:48:36Z")
What is the cost of a fare in NYC? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-mta/473680/22 "2008-11-22T01:11:00Z")
It was about $2 one way last I went. When will the fare hike be implemented? I’m travelling there this week and I was hoping on using their transist system (I’m staying in Queens, I want to see Manhattan). MTA does have more reasonable weekly and monthly fares (well, more or less). I’m not sure how bad they will be now. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-mta/473680/23 "2008-11-22T01:54:53Z")
I dunno if I’d call it THAT much of a bargain with the monthly pass. If you work 50 weeks a year and take the subway twice a work-day you use 83 dollars a month. But if you buy cards for 7 dollars a pop or more you get a 15 percent bonus. So in that case it’d be 72 dollars a month for using a normal pay-per-ride metrocard. So if you take the train twice a week on week-days and then use the train four times extra, then you’ve broken even. The monthly card is only a slight bargain over using the prepaids if you happen to take more than 45 trips a month then you’re better off with a monthly, otherwise get a pre-paid. But being a student and having a part-time job I’m no-where near that amount. Even when I worked full-time I don’t know that I’d necessarily go out both nights every weekend, and you don’t always leave the neighborhood. Point is that the monthly card requires a lot of use to really save money. For most it’s only just a little bit. I know a few people who are on a monthly card who I suspect are wasting money ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-mta/473680/24 "2008-11-22T02:09:58Z")
> [@KarlGrenze](#): > > It was about $2 one way last I went. When will the fare hike be implemented? I’m travelling there this week and I was hoping on using their transist system (I’m staying in Queens, I want to see Manhattan). > > MTA does have more reasonable weekly and monthly fares (well, more or less). I’m not sure how bad they will be now. Still $2 the fare hike starts in June. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-mta/473680/25 "2008-11-22T03:23:15Z")
This really sucks. It will affect me a lot. I shell out close to $300 already on rail fare each month. I feel sorrier for the truly poor, though. I knew this would not be a good thing when the New York article quoted the MTA spokesman as saying the changes would be ‘‘draconian.’’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-mta/473680.md?page=1)