A Grande Treasures package includes round-trip air, five free hotel nights, breakfasts, transfers, subway pass and half-day tour.
Transfer to subway line 10 and head west to Suzhoujie（苏州街） Station.
Bus fare: free transfer from subway with Metrocard; bus only, $1. IRIE JAM CELEBRITY SOCCER MATCH, Memorial Field, Mount Vernon, N.Y., (718) 515-6536.
Pay-Per-Ride MetroCards allow for one free transfer from subway-to-bus, bus-to-subway, or bus-to-bus within two (2) hours of the first swipe; "SingleRide" tickets do not allow transfers and must be used within two (2) hours of purchase, except if used on a bus (to which you must request a transfer from the operator).
Thousands of riders now use the buses as part of an alternative to the Long Island Rail Road, riding buses into Queens, where they transfer to subways.
After that, the account went dark until July 5, when Mr. Lhota said he was moved to comment on the anniversary of the free transfer between subways and buses in New York.
The authority began a study in 1998, now nearing completion, citing problems getting downtown that included transfers between subway and commuter lines that tend to be "congested and crowded," and that "subway links are being perceived to be as congested and unreliable, leading to customer anxiety that they may miss their connecting train".
Certain transfers between subway lines, passageways of almost transcendent sordidness; certain sites of torn-down buildings where parking lots have silently sprung up like fungi; certain intersections created by illogical confluences of streets — these express with particular force the city's penchant for the provisional and its resistance to permanence, order, closure.
It could allow for free transfers between subways and buses, an innovation that had eluded the token.
The system is also being increasingly used during off-peak times, especially by younger people, who are encouraged by promotions like free transfers between subways and buses and by a decline in crime in the city, Mr. Ortiz said.
