Apple Pay won't fully roll out in NYC subway until December

In March 2019, Apple announced that people would be able to use Apple Pay to pay for rides at all New York City subway stations by October 2020. 

However, the coronavirus pandemic threw a wrench in that plan. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, which cites Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials, the OMNY payment system will be delayed by about two months. The report says that installation was halted to protect the health of workers. It resumed in early May.  

“Unless you have OMNY at both ends of your destination you’re not going to use OMNY,” Al Putre, the MTA official in charge of implementing the system, told the WSJ. Read more...

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