According to a new budget report from the MTA, they will receive 85 million dollars from the cash that was left on the MetroCard passengers.
Unspent nickels, and destinative was the largest investment from passengers in 2012, when the transport Department of new York received $ 95 million of the balance on the MetroCard. But that year was an exception, because passengers handled their MetroCards in anticipation of higher prices in 2010, leaving millions of dollars unspent.
The surplus increased the total income MTA to 4.4 billion dollars last year, which management received including from passengers who lost their subway maps and had to exchange them for new ones.
Strange payment system in MTA only adds to the confusion. Passengers receive a bonus of 5% to 28 cents for every dollar 5.50 per ticket for a MetroCard.
«There’s some opaque, obtuse system from the point of view of what you get on your card,» said John Orcutt, the Director of the division of protection in the Transit Center and former senior representative of the management of urban transport.»You get these extra residues that just don’t give you anything, so you ignore them.»
The remaining cash MetroCard will be listed in the budget of the MTA as a «fare».
The MTA has tried to solve this problem in 2013, adding $ 1 of your bonus for a new MetroCard. The idea was that the increase would encourage people to continue to replenish the cards, instead of just throwing them away. But the scheme still has not worked.
The press Secretary of the MTA has not commented on the situation.
