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The MTA is expanding its free metrocard program for city schoolkids — in a bid to combat record-breaking levels of farebeating, officials said Thursday.
“We are attempting to make it easier for these young people to not have a record because they’re trying to carry out a an activity that they must do,” he said. Some students told a focus group organized by the panel they resort to jumping the turnstile because they don’t get enough free rides to attend internships or other extracurricular activities.Transit Tech student Malik Inniss, 17, said he needs more daily swipes to get to and from football games and internships.
In one 2023 incident reviewed by the panel, a 41-year-old man was stopped for using a student subway card and was found to have a knife, a baton and an open warrant for assault. The city and state together budgeted $75.5 million to cover the program — even though the panel in 2023 estimated the program will cost the MTA twice that at around $150 million.
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