New York Travel - Transportation

Transportation..

There are three major transportations. Subway, Bus and Taxi.

If you want to use subway and bus, you have to take a metro card. There are two kinds of cards.

Pay-per-ride - From 2 dollars to 80 dollars, you can freely choose the cost. It can be used by various people not just one

Unlimitied - You can choose the periods of the card. There are 1 day, 7 days, 30 days passes. If you go many places in short period like me, this card is more economical than pay-per-ride.

1 Day - $7 / 7 Day - $24

But you can not use it with someone and after using this you can not use it for 18 minutes.

How to buy it

You can buy it through the vending machine and clerk windows. But 1day pass(Fun Pass) is only sold at a vending machine or nearby store. You can buy it by cash, debit card and credit card.

When you take it

Subway map

Subways run north and south, uptown and downtown on Lexington Avenue, 6th Avenue, 7th Avenue, Broadway, and 8th Avenue. The Q, N, R, W, E, F, V and 7 trains to Queens run east to west, crossing Manhattan. A, C, B, D, J, M, Z, L, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4 and 5 lines all run to Brooklyn. - http://traveldk.com/new-york/practical-info

At first you can be confused the sign.. but if you want to go to North, find the Uptown sign.(South - Downtown)

And there are Express, Local train. Express train stop at major stations so you do not know the major stations.. just taking local train is safe.

Major stations are marked by white.(Look at the subway map)

Sometimes express train changed local trains. So carefully listen the announce.

It looks too old one(I looked rats), but it is really essential transportation for New York people. It is really fast and convenient..

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And!! There are some homeless people in the train. They do not threaten people, but smell.. is so bad..

Bus

Bus is good to move horizontally but I only took the bus twice. I usually use subway because the distance between streets is not far so we usually walked when we had to move horizontally.

Anyway the buses are low-floor and clean!

Taxi

The symbol of New York! Yellow Cap. As you can see there are many cabs on the road. The basic rate is $2.5 and increase 40cent per 1 mile. They take just cash and you have to prepare 15~20% tip.