State lawmakers and union officials demanded Tuesday that the MTA resume cash transactions at subway token booths, saying the no-cash policy started during the pandemic discriminates against low-income New Yorkers.
Politicians gathered outside Broadway Junction subway station in East New York to demand the agency immediately resume the hand-to-hand transactions, which ended in March 2020 out of concern that paper money could easily transmit the coronavirus.
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State lawmakers and union officials demanded Tuesday that the MTA resume cash transactions at subway token booths, saying the no-cash policy started during the pandemic discriminates against low-income New Yorkers.
Politicians gathered outside Broadway Junction subway station in East New York to demand the agency immediately resume the hand-to-hand transactions, [...]
