NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — New York City will be moving to a “European-style” approach to bus fare enforcement, MTA Chair Janno Lieber said Tuesday.
The city will move away from using police for fare enforcement on buses, Lieber explained to a crowd at New York City Law School. Lieber said the shift will happen once OMNY is fully implemented in 2026.
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Lieber said he hopes Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will prioritize bus fare enforcement, even as he explores making the bus system free.
”We’re going to move to European-style fare payment enforcement, where you’ll have fare agents, not cops, who can go up to people and say, ‘Can you show me your phone or your OMNY card and I can validate that you paid,’” Lieber said…