and if you decide to leave your car at home and take mass transit get ready to pay a little more for New York City Subways the MTA board voted unanimously this week to approve a fair hike commuters can now expect to pay 2.90 for a ride on the New York City Subways this is a 15 cent bump and marks a first Fair hike since 2019 and the first increase in the base Subway and bus fare since 2015. the biannual increases were paused during the pandemic but the MTA sees the hikes as a major step to bounce back after the financial losses of low ridership and to step forward to combat the losses from Fairy Vaders which resulted in a 690 million dollar hit last year prices for the bus commuter railroads and tolls will also see a price hike people can expect to pay more for tolls beginning on August 6th and the subway and bus hike will go into effect on August 20th [Music]