New York is very quickly rolling out OMNY, which does support apple pay. It makes me happy, and I can't wait until I can buy my monthly that way

Also Portland, Oregon - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207958

Chicago and Miami are likely to follow suit since they already support Fitbit Pay (disclaimer: my employer, but I don't speak for them) - https://www.fitbit.com/us/technology/fitbit-pay/banks

OMNY is neat. You do not need to turn your phone's screen on to use it, and it works for a while after your phone's battery dies.

It is still slower than what I'm used to in Japan, where people have been paying for transit with their phone since 2001 or 2002. (Tokyo also went from 50-ish pilot stations to 500 production stations in just a few months. In New York, I think 2023 is the estimated completion date?)

One tricky part of this is you'd need to reeducate users that contactless credit cards can also get charged -- so if you put a Clipper and a credit card in a wallet, you need to be careful to not accidentally pay twice.

Vancouver just enabled this on their transit system, and they had posters all over warning people to not swipe their whole wallet over the readers like they were used to doing.

And Apply Pay in London is even better as you don't even need to authenticate the payment.

https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-pay/transport/

Looks like there are plans for this[0] (both support for a dedicated app and digital wallets); Wikipedia suggest 2021, but I expect it won't be out by next year.

I actually assumed Clipper was RFID, but turns out it's NFC after all (the Wikipedia article also notes that it's a common misconception that it uses RFID).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_card#Clipper_2.0