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The Offer
- Mastercard has a new transit benefit that runs from October 1, 2024, to December 31, 2025. Get $2.50 statement credit when you spend $10 or more each month at participating transit locations in:
- Chicago, IL
- Boston, MA
- Miami, FL
- Philadelphia, PA
- Dallas, TX
Our Verdict
Full terms here. Useful offer if you live in one of those cities. Keep in mind this runs through the end of 2025, not 2024 as well so more than a year of use.
Hat tip to Ben C
i get 3x back per dollar using ink preferred in illinois ventra card loads but it’s a visa card. sucks!
List of issuers not participating in the promo
https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/na/us/en/documents/mastercard-transit-benefit.pdf
We knew Goldman Sachs was struggling, but Capital One and BoA are outing themselves as cheap and/or stingy. $38 in credits over 15 months is too much?
PATCO is not a qualified subway system even it goes to Philly.
Best card for this promotion is Citi Custom Cash Card
Also doesn’t work on the Regional Rail because you can’t tap your credit card to enter. Wonder if it would work at a kiosk to reload your prepaid card.
The Apple Card and all Bank of America cards, and a fairly long list of other banks won’t work for this.
I wonder if EZPass reloads count as transit on MasterCard. I guess I’ll be the DP I want to see.
Welp it’s tap and go. So no EZpass reloads.
no NYC? sheesh
Yeah for real. Would’ve been clutch.
Different deal but there’s currently an amex offer for “MTA – Tap to Pay” on a few of my cards:
“Earn a $2 statement credit after using your enrolled eligible Card to make a single purchase of $2 or more by tapping to pay at MTA by 12/31/2024. Limit of 5 statement credits (total of $10).”
That’s because people actually use the MTA
you should be happy! cos you don’t want to get shoved down, beaten mugged or crushed by the train when you are pushed down. nyc is dangeorus
lol, good luck spending on public transit in Dallas
I do use DART every year! (Or more precisely, once a year 🤣🤣🤣)
It does serve both airports, so it is a plus.
Only bus goes to DAL, light rail serves both DAL and DFW.