On Aug 24, 4:15*pm, wrote:
On Aug 23, 8:20*am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

And no, you don't need to buy a SmartCard. The machines still sell non-
reuseable cards.

For a visitor it may be easier to pay a la carte one-way fares rather
than try and figure out multi-ride discounts which may not even be a
very big saving. *A lot depends on their plans.

If they're here for five days, then they need 10 one-way fares each.
Why should each spend the extra $4.50 on a la carte fares -- for
which, moreover, they'd have to wait in line at a machine for every
time?

A single 20-ride card takes care of all their commuting needs from a
fine hotel in "new downtown" Jersey City to Downtown Manhattan or
Village/Midtown.