MTA boss Janno Lieber didn’t seem to remember how much a monthly MetroCard costs Tuesday as he claimed commuters are “loving the benefit” of the potentially more expensive tap-to-ride system.
The decades-old MetroCard system will officially vanish by year’s end, to be fully replaced by the pay-as-you-go OMNY system.
“You don’t have to have $100 bucks in your pocket to pay for a monthly,” the transit agency’s CEO said on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show — even though a month unlimited actually costs $132.
OMNY is flexible but caps weekly charges at $34 — which could total $1,768 for a year — or nearly $200 more than purchasing 12 monthly unlimited passes for the year…