New York Is A Wonderful Town To Use Cash On Buses!

This link below takes you to how a bus fare can be paid for in New York.

new.mta.info/guides/riding-the-bus

Amongst the options listed:

“With exact change in coins

1. Board via the front door.

2. Insert exact change into the farebox.”

Now you might be thinking that this is a relatively new innovation, insisting on cash being paid in exact fares being a step in the direction of the awful “cashless”.

BUT YOU WOULD BE WRONG.

2024 year marks the 55th anniversary of New York City transit bus drivers no longer having to give change to passengers.

Aug. 31, 1969, was the first day bus passengers either had to deposit a subway token or the exact amount in coins directly into the fare box. Drivers were no longer required to give change.

AND 55 YEARS ON, CASH CONTINUES TO BE ACCEPTED ON NEW YORK BUSES.

As it is on buses around the United States, including in Los Angeles.

Meantime, this year is the 10th anniversary of the awful Transport for London banning cash use on the capitals buses, after a window-dressing “public consultation” conducted by then Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

The outright banning of cash by Transport for London was a flagrant betrayal of the London public, both locals and visitors.

They could have learned from New York -or, nearer to home, the capital of Scotland, the wonderful Edinburgh, where LOTHIAN REGION TRANSPORT LIMITED run a brilliant bus service and accept cash in the same way as New York.

Transport for London colluded with Visa and Mastercard to impose “cashless” on the UK public.

The two seemingly all-powerful International Card Schemes can’t get away with this in their home country - but they help inflict it on the UK public, where our “authorities” are weak enough to allow it to happen. Like in London.

On New York buses, “cashless” never had a chance to even draw breath.

The Payment Choice Alliance has already stated that “cashless” will be dead in the UK by the end of 2025.

AND IT WILL BE.