[huehehue]

That's a shame. I just paid for a T-casual with cash and it worked beautifully throughout the week despite becoming a crumpled mess by the end of my trip.

NYC is moving to a system called OMNY, where you can either hunt down a retailer with the cards or just use tap-to-pay. I suspect many casual riders will use the latter because of the low friction, but it's indeed not anonymous.

[julienb_sea]

NYC tap to pay is a beautiful system. Seamless with any mobile phone, and if you have an apple watch the integration is insane -- just put the watch near the reader and it knows it's a transit reader and just works, no need to even initiate payment.