Delayed hot take: OMNY and TAPP are annoyingly high-latency and worse than SmartLink and results in a lot of people running to a locked turnstile. Unlike the SmartLink reader bump, the large flat glass screens of OMNY/TAPP are unergonomic and cards clumsily stick to them and need to be pried off.
jimmybot
Goodbye MetroCard and SmartLink, hello PATH TAPP card , provided by the same company as MTA's OMNY system, but they they can't be used across systems as was planned in 2000 www.nj.com/news/2025/12...
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PATH rolled out the TAPP card, its replacement for the MetroCard and SmartLink fare cards, which will be phased out this month.
