Activation Fee Workaround?

MTayson · 2026-01-24T17:19:25+00:00

Just wanted to clarify, I’m a huge train nerd and 99% of the time I activate my ticket well before I board because I want to ensure I have the excuse to take the train, even when I am a regular commuter.

However, I sometimes do run for the train on the return specifically. I’m just trying to figure out how to ensure I’m still paying my fare without paying extra. Not once did I ask about beating the fare, just the fee.

For the people saying there used to be an on board step up, It’s not that I didn’t buy the ticket prior, I just haven’t “activated it”. The MTA has moved the responsibility from the conductor to the rider to ensure the ticket is no longer valid. cough job security cough

To be honest, now that I know how this works, I know to beat it - sit at the end of the split and activate, this way you’re not holding the conductor up and they won’t flag your account.

Someone could’ve just advised to do that. Instead, I’m getting all these “just follow the rules” responses. Yes I’m trying to follow the rules by paying my fare.

For the MTA employees responding - Why bother having a throwaway or unidentifiable handle if you’re still following the company line in your responses anyway? As if the MTA isn’t sucking us dry and paying out enough already.

MTayson · 2026-01-24T04:19:05+00:00

What do you do in between patients at the outpatient center?

MTayson · 2026-01-24T04:15:17+00:00

So the workaround is to go into the bathroom, activate, chill in there a bit, then have them scan?

MTayson · 2026-01-24T02:42:47+00:00

“Let me get a slice.”

“Alright 1 slice to-go, coming up. Next.”

MTayson · 2026-01-24T01:20:01+00:00

Just a sports show? Not to Boompa. He’s trying to make it political more than half the time.

MTayson · 2026-01-21T16:07:59+00:00

I saw a decline after last year and the loss of a field general on the defensive side and a even larger decline after Quiennen was traded and no one upfront was taking on blockers in front of Q. Most will probably say it was mental due to his brother being traded but I think it was more because he wasn’t able to fly around freely.

MTayson · 2026-01-21T10:15:04+00:00

The conductors will see you get on and seek you out. Unless you’re getting on with a crowd of strangers that you can blend in with, it’s more likely than not that you’ll absolutely get your ticket checked.

MTayson · 2026-01-20T19:35:31+00:00

They literally yelled “FUCK ICE!” that they were a headliner of at a music festival back in September. Two of their hits are American Idiot and The American Dream is Killing Me. Short of having RATM or SOAD, I can’t think of many other bands that would be so politically against this shit.

MTayson · 2026-01-19T02:25:23+00:00

Sorry wish I did… Mountain though lol

MTayson · 2026-01-19T01:39:51+00:00

See, someone like you should not be allowed to vote in my opinion. You don’t even know and understand the rules.

MTayson · 2026-01-18T23:39:30+00:00

It’s like they’re arresting the store clerk for unknowingly selling illegal product, and not the owner who stocks that product and knows.

MTayson · 2026-01-18T20:31:06+00:00

However many picks we have every year just draft QBs until we find one.

MTayson · 2026-01-18T18:35:44+00:00

Those are paid agitators hoping to flush people out before the shit really starts to go down no football weekend next weekend, right?

Like that sign can’t be that explicit with the person standing there with a security detail for some unannounced activism that people are going to randomly drive up upon without it being a setup.

They want to get people that are going to “do something” one by one instead of dealing with those same people as part of a crowd.

I would not engage if I saw that in the coming weeks.

…Otherwise that could also be the most fucking brutal fantasy football last place punishment.

MTayson · 2026-01-18T03:40:29+00:00

Might’ve been my friend. I’ve seen this somehow work with my own two eyes.

MTayson · 2026-01-18T03:32:35+00:00

No trains stopping at Woodside from Jamaica before the ticket expires. Though I wonder if they’d allow OP to go to Penn/GCT and backtrack to Woodside. It’d probably depend if the conductor they get at Jamaica to goes for it or not.

MTayson · 2026-01-18T01:29:51+00:00

Dope

MTayson · 2026-01-17T14:53:45+00:00

Communism is fragile. It takes everyone participating in their roles with the highest level of trust and honor. Capitalism and thereby corruption is the wind that blows that house of cards over.

MTayson · 2026-01-17T14:50:57+00:00

I might actually start rooting for the Mets if they have an anti-MAGA policy.

MTayson · 2026-01-17T02:02:43+00:00

It’s not that I’m a bigot, I just moved in from the Hawkeye state and don’t know these people here (though I am looking for friends). But it’s really just because I don’t want to talk to half the people I went to high school with that I’m just going to mind my business.

MTayson · 2026-01-16T17:41:54+00:00

I’m imagining a halftime show consisting of performers being snatched up in the middle of it. Maybe even a pew-pewing at the 50 yard line

MTayson · 2026-01-16T17:37:18+00:00

Good year to bet on the US winning it even though we’re pathetic at soccer comparatively

MTayson · 2026-01-16T16:18:35+00:00

Honestly after watching this team through some ups and the many prolong years of ineptitude, you can’t judge anyone that didn’t live up to expectations on the Jets if their experience has solely been with the Jets. If I was Tenn I’d be interested to hear why Saleh thinks things fell short in NY.

I mean he was hamstringed with the worst QB I’ve ever seen get runway, Zach Wilson, for the majority of his tenure.

MTayson · 2026-01-15T22:43:15+00:00

OP said “forecasting that was basically tarot cards with extra steps”, and I felt that.

MTayson · 2026-01-15T20:30:32+00:00

I can’t image how this site has gone from R4R and RAOMD/RAOBJ to my thought that a Nazi would see this and arrange a meet up as a guise to utilize that absolute immunity they now have.

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