Can you combine metrocards nyc

Unlimited Ride cards allow you to ride the subway and buses as often as you want, as long as the time window that you bought for the card hasn't passed. There are only two time windows available:. Sorry, there aren't any single-day or weekend passes. If you think you are going to make more than 12 individual trips a very likely scenario for tourists staying more than two days , buying a 7-Day Unlimited Ride card will be cheaper than paying 12 times. The time window does not activate until you swipe the card for the very first time at a turnstile to enter the system.

For instance, you can buy the card on January 17, activate it on April 1, and it will expire at midnight between April 7 and April 8. Unlimited cards always expire exactly at midnight on the 7th or 30th day , regardless of the time you activated the card on the first day. For instance, if you activate a 7-Day Unlimited Ride card on Monday morning, it will expire Sunday night at midnight.

If you activate the card Monday evening at pm, it still expires Sunday night at midnight. As a result, you effectively get to use it only for 6 days and 30 minutes.

In that case, you are better off paying for a single ride using the Pay-Per-Ride card and then activating the Unlimited Ride card the next morning. Unlimited Ride cards cannot be shared by two people.

In fact, there is a roughly minute delay between each swipe to prevent the card from being used by more than one person. As noted before, on the back of every MetroCard you'll find a printed physical expiration date. Add value to your MetroCard Select if you want to Add value and choose your desired amount. At the end you will pay and then receive your MetroCard, which can be used until the pass has expired or the credit is been used.

During rush hour runs every minutes. In between the subway runs every minutes. At night until Midnight every minutes. From Midnight to AM the subway runs every 20 minutes.

You can simply read the subway map and create your own route but if you like it a little bit more convenient, download one of the many apps for the Subway in New York City that helps you to navigate around.

They also show you delays. Other than that we mostly use Google Maps , because the app not only shows you the subway but also the busses, bike lanes and routes if you want to walk the distance to your final destination. You can even use your unlimited passes. Generally, there is a difference between express trains and local trains. Express trains, in contrast to local trains that stop at every station of a particular line, do not stop at every station.

Subway lines are marked so that it is easy to tell which type of train services the line: a letter or number in a circle designates a local train. If the letter or number is is in a diamond, you are looking at an express train. The subway map also shows which stations are serviced by what type of train. Stations serviced by express trains are indicated by a white dot with a black rim. Regular stations are designated by only a black dot.

From the example on the left, you can see that the th Street Station and 86th Street Station are serviced by express trains. You can also see that underneath every station, there are numbers or letters — these indicate which lines stop at that particular station. In our example, Line 6 stops at the following stations: 86 St.

Lines 4 and 5 only stop at 86 St. The only quirk is that you need to enter some refill amount before the website will provide the correct amount to load onto your card. Like this post? Please share it! This post first appeared on Your Mileage May Vary. This was a great article, once upon a time, some years ago. When did they start doing this? I never noticed any thing like that.

A few days ago I found a metrocard in front an elevator at work. Hey MR, Thanks for the Post on my site. I like your run route but Jamaica to Shea can be a very profitable run as well especially if you enjoy running the stairs on occasion and your not even a runner ;o. Just another quick comment relating to Metrocard checking. Yesterday, I checked a few cards at a reader and an older woman comes up to the reader, so I quickly let her use it.

She checked 3 cards and then walked away leaving 2 of the 3 on the reader. She said they're expired. She grabbed those suckers out of my hand faster then I could blink an eye and didn't even say Thank You.

So what happens to the unclaimed money? And how much in lost cards goes unclaimed? Ah, I answered my own question. So you are finding a drop in the bucket.

Actually less than a drop - or alternatively more than a bucket. And I bet it beats earning nickles by returning deposit bottles. Right after Christmas, I found an unlimited with 5 days left. I hope I don't have trouble consolidating the cards. Did not know you could do that! Love finding money-filled metrocards. Is there a fee to combine Metrocards? I didn't think there was but I had four cards with under a dollar each so I decided to have them combined yesterday.

Seems like they took an even 5 cents per card. Anyway, it's not the money I'm wondering about so much as I was not aware of this being a new policy. I can't find any mention of this online so I'm wondering if token clerks are skimming cards in a "get rich slow" scheme like in "Office Space". Hay Anonymous There is no fee. I think ya mighta just done the math wrong. There is a lot of oversight over what goes on in those booths. You got cheated. It was like chain mail, and pretty hard to sit down in, because the cards didn't really bend.

I wore it to a party in Greenwich Village, and the conductor on the subway I took to get there the R to the N loved it and asked my husband to take a photo of me standing next to him as he leaned out the window of his guard booth. I checked every one of those cards before I sewed them into the dress to make sure there was no value left on them. Otherwise, they would have been yours, Michael. Some now have dried beer on them, and others have guacamole, but the dress lives on.

Wow, you're beating my average. The "See Agent" cards I usually check them in the metrocard machines too and say "invalid". You're saying if I bring them to an agent they may actually still find money on them?? The booth people roll their eyes if you bring them more than one "see agent". Try to use them at the actual turnstile and then mail them in. Happy Hunting, DH.