[mason55]

This generally only hits tourists but there is one place that' it's super annoying. If you take the AirTrain from JFK to Jamaica you have to pay $5. The issue is that you can't load that $5 onto an unlimited Metrocard (the kind that most locals use) so you have to get a new one with the associated $1 fee. Then you get your bonus on top of the $5 so you have a $5.40 Metrocard or whatever it comes out to but you've paid $6 for it and now have 40 useless cents on it once you come out of the Airtrain.

[gergles]

You can add cash to an unlimited MetroCard now and have been able to do so for about a year. More annoying is that you can't use the auto-refilling MetroCards on PATH.