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MetroCard

Public transit payment system in the New York City area
Class type of: public transport proximity card, magnetic stripe card Q3097883

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
fare control system
Inception
1993[5]
Country
United States[2]
Official website
web.mta.info[6]
Website
web.mta.info
Subclass of
public transport proximity card, magnetic stripe card[3][4]
Operating area
New York City[8]
Replaced by
OMNY[7]
Social media followers
3123.0[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Metro Card en MetroCard en MetroCarod he מטרוכארד ja メトロ・カード ja メトロカード (ニューヨーク) ja メトロカード (ニューヨーク市) ja メトロカード (ニューヨーク市地下鉄) zh MetroCarod (紐約市) zh 地鐵卡 zh 都会卡
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Swiping a MetroCard.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/01_k7s
Quora topic ID
MetroCard-NYC
X (Twitter) username
MetroCardCity

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
United States
Operating area 1
New York City
Subclass of 1
magnetic stripe card
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Summary

MetroCard is a fare control system[1].

Related Entities

New York City United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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