nyc fact/tip #12:

long island railroad and metro north railroad still uses conductors to manually check tickets and use hole punchers to validate fare payment. this is in contrary to other systems like in london where they use tap on/tap off.

they are supposed to get omny (nyc’s new fare collection system) on the railroads, but very little information on how that will be implemented has been shared (i think it’s very unlikely they install tap points at stations).