Watch New Yorkers Struggle With The MetroCard Swipe
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2016
- We captured the quintessential NYC struggle of MetroCard swiping. gothamist.com/2016/07/06/see_i...
Shot by Jessica Leibowitz and Emily Siegel
Edited by Jessica Leibowitz
Produced by Jen Carlson and Jessica Leibowitz
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Born and raised in NYC and holy shit, it sometimes sucks real bad trying to get into the subway. Was going to work yesterday morning and had to swipe my card like 10 times before it finally read. Almost missed the 7 train because of it.
Use your walking pace to swipe while keeping your whole arm still with the card in hand.
Did the guy at 00:56 think he had magic hands? He didn't even have a card in his hands.
Kevin McCallister Hahahaha, maybe he planned to swipe his hand thru.
Kevin McCallister ive done that before lol, i just completely forgot that i need to swipe my card
bellaaa lml I did that too.
you cant bullshit the bullshiter
Kevin McCallister His smile off to the side right after he realized was perfect
we should implement the tap system. tap the card and amen.
Ryan Flores because disturbing a decent system with a long and disruptive that would make stations like Canal street hell is a GREAT idea.
they still fail my "MYKI" (which is a Touch ONLY system) kept reading "Not Touched on" when it was! so they still need work on them
Ryan Flores yeah in Chicago with our Ventra cards all you have Todo is tap it and you are go to go
i mean the oyster system works well in london... and thats a touch system
That's how it works in DC, yep.
For such a wealthy city like New York the metro there really is one that can be considered outdated and badly maintained
kuazexin In my city of Cleveland, Ohio. Our RTA system has an app that you can use to ride trains and buses. We still have the outdated swipe system like New York unfortunately.
Because the city of New York cannot afford to spend a large amount of time, money, and manpower to upgrade the subway system. Not everything is perfect. I'd say the sanitation in certain parts of Manhattan is piss-poor too. Chinatown and Harlem look like the lowest of income places in certain spots, you'd never think it was part of Manhattan.
LMAO ive posted it twice in two different formats. and where do you live? middle of nowhere?
It has to do with a lack of founding, years of neglect, and passengers who will sue if they don’t have service.
the mta is actually swimming in money with profits increasing every year. The problem is that the state uses the MTA profits for other projects meanwhile leaving very little for the MTA to spend on itself.
so is that what you when your card doesn't work jump over and climb under the bar? lol
or walk past the emergency exit
New Yorkers need a contactless card system like we have in London. Google or RUclips Oyster card. So much easier and none of this swipe fast or slower nonsense
+Antonio Monetti I have used the emergency door a few times, right in the view of the cops they knew my struggle and let me by xD
Hell, even Boston (not known for the most uh... up to date transit system) has the contactless CharlieCard.
+vibeuk2003 every relatively big sized city in France has that shit, we're so ahead of you new yorkers huehue
The guy at 0:56 - did he just think the MTA knows him without needing a MetroCard?
Well he did the swiping motion with his empty hand, and you can see his sheepish reaction at the end before going through his pockets.
I swear sometimes I swipe it, it doesn't work, but it still takes money off my card.
happened to me and my friend
Has happened to me too 😩
It happens to me every time I use one. When I go up to counter, they ask, “doesn’t work again?”
Yep it’s happened to me too.
Been riding the train for over a decade since I was a kid and once I forgot to take out my metrocard, I just walked and bumped into the turnstile like an idiot 😂😂😂
why can't they make an rfid reader
it would make life so much easier
i think the bay area has that
like we've had in london since 2003. Magnetic stripe cards what is this 1983?
Same thing in Paris. Magnetic stripes are only on tickets, but not on month or week cards which have RFID.
+hztm crwazy talk.
The MTA does plan on phasing out the Metrocard and replacing it with RIFD/NFC technology. The TA hopes to finally phase out the Metrocard in 2022.
This is why oyster cards are better lol
ClassyBrooksy lol they are no use if you are leaving the tube station and someone pushes you through before the doors close for the last person
Bashar al-Assad you have to perfect the stop tap step manoeuvre. Stop short of the gate area, tap, then walk through. A necessary measure to take.
Even before oysters our card system was still better because we didn’t have to swipe but insert the card instead
You know Oyster cards are made in America right? San Francisco and Chicago are exact copies of Oyster because they’re all made by the same company, Cubic.
Ever heard of OMNY?
0:59 is a time traveler, still thinks we use tokens
Swiping your metro card is like the admin card swipe in among us
Not being a New Yorker and never having used this card swipe system, it just looks like they have really bad card readers. That or people are really bad at managing their card balance and the turnstile doesn't inform them of their balance clearly enough.
The card readers suck ass.
I find that it's both bad readers and the speed of the swipes. Go too fast or too slow and it doesn't read well. Sometimes they don't read well at all and people switch to the one next to it. It's annoying. I've rarely come across a turnstile that doesn't inform the balance clearly yet, so I don't think that's part of the problem. But yeah some people do forget the amount of money they have left in the cards, or the card has expired, and can't get through that way.
Magnetic card readers are terrible
The problem is that they're a magnetic read flimsy paper card. They're terrible and unreliable and I had a shit of a time using them. In Sydney we have the Opal card, a solid plastic RFID card that you tap onto a reader. So much more painless and easier. Same gig as Oyster card in the U.K. or Myki in Melbourne. NYC needs to get with it.
Whenever i'm in New York those readers scan my card and take my money but won't open the gate, at least once. Total garbage, at least in Houston you just tap a card.
DC has touchless ones. Mine stays in my purse and I literally just lay my purse on the thingy and it opens lol
Victoria Yost so does Boston and I do the same 😂❤️
Victoria Yost Same in Chicago, I keep it in my wallet.
same here in tokyo! no swiping required
evil genius giant brain I was just about to say that
Same in london its called an oyster babes
1) Hold the card out without any movement from the right shoulder to the fingertips.
2) Use your walking pace to drive the card through the scanner in the wedges.
A fully, normal reader will sound the echo along with the "beeeep" sound, then the prongs can be rotated.
Felix Mak omg ty. The real trick is to just swipe it at a walking pace. People who don't get it either swipe again too fast or too slow and it doesn't work.
Everytime I come to visit New York I have some difficulties with it at the beginning, but I have to admit after a few tries I mostly have got the knack of doing it properly.
this is sooooooo outdated
In Miami we just tap and go. Why is a world premiere city like NYC so behind with technology?
x1990x cause it cost to much money to change a system then they would have to update everything. They waiting for everything to break firsr
Because nyc is shit. (Ive lived here my whole life. I have every right to say that this city is shit.)
Because NYC completely ignored the MTA and failed to upgrade it until it literally started falling apart.
We just started getting the technology now with our phones
Too busy, cannot insult them
I hate those people that stand in front of the turnstile & look for their metro. STEP TO THE FUCKIN SIDE TO LOOK FOR IT AND STOP BLOCKING PEOPLE
Magnetic strip on metrocard and credit card.. why is this still a thing in America.
Allan Tj Only New York ....because I have been reading some comments from other states and it seems to me that New York is still one of the only states using that system. 🙃
Cry Tears Yep. In Seattle we just hover (it's officially called a "tap" because of how quick it registers) the orca card over a sensor and you go on your way. It's fucking amazing, it doesn't care which way you orient the card either. New York needs to catch up!!
New York is going to be switching in the next few years
NYC needs to catch up cuz in most cities, they do Tap Cards like in LA
The only thing thats new york about this was when they started to hop the bar.....
I'm heartened to see that some good old fashion turnstyle jumping still exists.
and its eternal rival the turnstile slide
I was a tourist in New York for a week and I've never struggled more with something so simple
I can't even laugh because I know the struggle
Living in a developing country we just tap and go just like a breeze. Lol
Real New Yorkers can get it it one swipe 😤😤
Exactly if it doesnt work the first time just hop that bitch
Real New Yorkers also know that if you don’t have an unlimited metrocard and you only have one ride worth of money left in your card you would need to swipe it twice at the same turnstile
as a non American can someone explain the likelihood of being caught not swiping your card and just jumping the barrier
John Derek TBH it depends on the location and whether or not there are undercover cops there. If there's no undercover cops or uniform cops you're good, which means no ticket, or warning.
John Derek American who doesn't live somewhere with a metro system, and I was wondering the same thing.
yeah u just have to check before jumping
Americans are generally pretty honest people when it comes to things like that. That's why we are not Russia.
No, they're not. You leave a subway station in NYC with no patrol for ten minutes and the whole place is a shithole.
I see it all the time. One guy climbs through without swiping, nobody comes up to him to stop him, then 50 more people follow suit.
1st world...yeah right
knightkick1 thank you hes dumb asf
Win Ro hold this L
knightkick1 don’t worry. We have the newer system soon, as they announced Apple Pay etc.
And remember the London turnstile system was actually built by an American company, Cubic Transportation Systems
those swiping machine are made for right hand people only.. those who swiped by left hand didn't work properly those who swiped by right hands are lefty.. magnetic stripes are just not aligned properly or is dirty used by 10k people everyday so best way to do is swipe it straight as possible and not so slow not so fast
Still 1st world
Def an art to it. Glad to see, as an out of towner, that locals also struggle w/this. I always have to coach buddies I bring to the city with me how to swipe - the most important thing is to swipe all the way thru, don't pull out prematurely. I always use the same line "you know what they call those who pull out prematurely, don't you? Parents!"
Oh the struggle of watching this Every single day on my way to school. Good times.
Tell you something, when I was in New York and was able to swipe the metro card successfully the first attempt, it was really satisfying. They told me you have to swipe at the tempo of your walking pace! So instead of moving your hand only, just walk through really, it worked all the time!
Works perfectly
In the Seattle area we have Orca Card, which is "tap on tap off" style, we just tap it in front of an electric box, it gives a beep and you go. It's a split second. It's on all the buses and light rail trains, Sounder trains, street cars, etc. it works way better.
The classic swipe and strike.
I’m so happy for clipper. Just tap it and it opens
I love how that one lady just crawled under.
When I walk up to the bar and there are people behind me I panic so much because what if it doesn't work and a line builds up behind me. So often I just squeeze under as a last resort
swiping an nyc metrocard, is an art that is mastered, earned not given
Whoever edited this video is a genius.
the pain is real
*true art*
Have y’all seen the Tokyo metro cards? You can literally place your wallet on the reader, plus its balance can be used for vending machines and 7 eleven.
New york city... catch up sis
New York ain't part of Japan
I once saw an old lady trying to swipe a metro card, not to enter the subway platform but to leave it.
When I went to New York, our school used subways as transportation, each time I went I ended up struggling so much just to swipe that card! My friends too had trouble swiping the card:)
Is this the 90s? We used to have magnetic ticket on top of the existing RFID cards for season commuters. Somewhere mid 2010s, we already phased out the ticket in favor of single journey RFID tokens. Even better, our IDs can hold monetary values to pay for public transportation and tolls. Starting this year, ALL ATM cards are mandatory to be RFID enabled and pin-based payments. No signatures are allowed starting next year. This is in a so-called Third World country. Lol
so glad I don't have to do that anymore
What's more funny is many people behind also having a hard time swiping it
The struggle is real.
Personally I haven't had so much issues with it really, you get used to it after a while
Once I had 10$ in my metro card but the magnetic strip was distorted as told by the customer service. So had no other option but jump
This is RUclips gold. More more!
The background music is perfect
Those things are either broken and malfunctioning or those people are not from New York.
Those people are from New York. It’s just that the swipe technology is getting outdated to the point where almost everyone sucks at it.
Luckily the new OMNY system is here.
It always takes me one test swipe then most of the time the second gets it 😂
While on the London Underground, you tap your card on the reader, the machine goes beep, and in you go!
In San Francisco we have ClipperCard and you just tap and go. The ticket machine makes a really loud beep to let you know it worked.
It's even worse when you have to go through one of those revolving door shits and the card won't scan and you're pushing on the metal bar door looking like an idiot
Makes me feel better I thought I was the only one!
A lot of people keep their metro card near their electronics like in the same pockets with their phone and iPods. What this does is it deactivates the magnetic strip making a perfectly good metro card usable.
When I went to NYC for the first time in 2015, I hated that shit. Was so frustrating!
There's a couple of turnstiles at 86th St on the UES that have not worked for years, and they will take money from your card and still ask you to "Please Swipe Again At this Turnstile"
God, the amount of times I attempted to walk through the turnstiles without swiping my metrocard first because my day was just too tiring 😂
Maybe they should upgrade the subway station roof
I think the key is the speed you swipe it: not too fast, but not too slow.
Am I the only one that nails it every time?
When I was too little not not responsible enough for a metro card my mom would have me stand in front so we would go in together in one swipe.
thats why nyc subway needs a new faregate system, like magnetic or tapping system, even my country uses tapping system so nyc needs a new faregate system
I've only stayed at new york for 10 days and OH BOY did I struggle swiping this goddamn card
more like tourist vs metrocards
lol the only thing here that is similar to that is when your tap card wont read and you keep hearing that loud beep beep that tell everyone that you dont have money on your card 🤣🤣🤣
Looks like a bunch of ants getting blocked then moving forward
1:29 I love her hair!
Presto saves us time. We just touch our card to the machine.
Verry deep struggle
Can believe this country still uses magnetic stripe readers. All you need is a tap from your card or phone.
son just go under if there are no cops around that whole swipe mess is annoying when it doesn't work 😂😭
makes me so grateful for Oyster.
Seems like a happy places to live
It sucks when the metro be making me all types of late for school
Lmfao the imfamous “fuck you turnstyle” those fucking things have a mind of there own. They decide who passes and who gets stuck.
The path system which operates in Jersey has smart links cards which are RFID and let me tell you it’s the greatest. We also use metrocards and requires you to insert it rather than swiping, the MTA needs a serious upgrade
So glad they are putting NFC. Usually, swiping at walking speed is good enough for it to read.
Toronto has both swipe and tap and I have never seen people struggle like this
That’s my professor!!! @ 0:19 LOl
god all the people going under or hopping the turnstiles are a big mood
This video was me when I was in NYC working at the US Open in 2011 and I bent my 30 day card just 2 days into the trip. Didn't work the rest of the trip. It was such a hassle cuz the workers could tell there was money on it but it wouldn't read. So I could either go talk to a worker if there was one or just hop the bars/walk with someone else very quickly. They wouldn't let me switch it out either. Maybe their policies have changed. I talked to so many employees about it and nobody could help me.
nah just wait for someone to open the exit door and slip in at the last second
When one of the people is your professor lmao
Why is swiping still a thing? in my country, we still don't have metro but in busses and train stations tickets are used with the tap system...
why are people saying that they are tourists?? they deadass look like real new yorkers
I never had this issue with a Unlimited metrocard
Yeah starting to get second thoughts about living in NYC
Please rename this to "Watch TOURISTS Struggle with the MetroCard Swipe"
In my city you don’t even walk through a barrier you just tap your card at the little stand and the train cops have a little machine that makes sure you did.
Oh I hate when they jump the gates. It makes me so anxious.
I'm from Los Angeles and we have the Tap card.. just tap and move on. I recently moved to NYC, been here a month and I hate how I have to swipe multiple times sometimes missing the subway!!
Couldn't they just have a turnstile without the swipe? Just put your card in like on the bus, and it can come out of the other end as you push or comes back out if it's rejected.
Would be faster and easier.
Jeffrey Zhang they only have that for the handicap door
Takes longer. Swiping takes half a second, while dipping takes at least 2-3 seconds. Multiply that by thousands of people and you get lines.
we have the oldest system, other countries with subways don’t use this method anymore, don’t understand why we can’t upgrade
when this happens I just jump it or go under
THESE GUYS NEED TO LISTEN TO THE "METROCARD SONG"
Damn I miss taking the subway in NYC... always so many different personalities/people