The digital age is dawning for older bus riders who refuse to dump coins for the MTA’s new fare-payment methods.
With OMNY now in use on 92% of paid bus trips, according to the MTA, the transportation authority is nudging golden-aged holdouts who still drop loose change into fareboxes to switch to the tap-and-go technology before coins are no longer accepted later this year.
“One thing we have been doing is just being vocal,” said Demetrius Crichlow, president of New York City Transit. “We have been out there in every outlet possible, I have personally gone to a lot of senior centers and talked directly about the transition.”…