{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-26T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/paying-for-the-bus-and-subway-just-a-little-bit-faster\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T09:08:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:08:02","slug":"paying-for-the-bus-and-subway-just-a-little-bit-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/paying-for-the-bus-and-subway-just-a-little-bit-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"paying for the bus and subway just a little bit faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mastercard.com\/us\/wce\/GIF\/12578_subwaytrial_symbol_fpo.gif\" height=\"87\" width=\"112\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mastercard.com\/us\/wce\/GIF\/12579_siteheader_subwaytrial_fpo.gif\" height=\"87\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of the announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/AboutthePortAuthority\/PressCenter\/PressReleases\/PressRelease\/index.php?id=1038\">PATH and two NJT bus routes will get a MasterCard contactless payment trial<\/a>, it was reported yesterday that NYCT is expanding its existing <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.amny.com\/news\/local\/tracker\/blog\/2008\/02\/tap_and_go.html\">Tap and go<\/a> trial program in ways I never expected (I thought the trial would end and that would be that, but I&#8217;m being pleasantly surprised). It looks like you may be able to use a single contactless fare device on parts of NYCT, PATH, and NJT in maybe a year. Very cool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/CommutingTravel\/path\/images\/new_cars2.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.njtransit.com\/images\/home_logo.gif\" height=\"82\" width=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Hot on the heels of the announcement that PATH and two NJT bus routes will get a MasterCard contactless payment trial, it was reported yesterday that NYCT is expanding its existing Tap and go trial program in ways I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/paying-for-the-bus-and-subway-just-a-little-bit-faster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33,34,31,12,30,13,29,35,36,32],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subway","tag-contactless","tag-fare","tag-mastercard","tag-mta","tag-nj-transit","tag-nyct","tag-path","tag-payment","tag-rfid","tag-tap-and-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}