The cards will also allow different pricing methods, like discounts for multiple rides or one-month unlimited-use passes.

The one-month pass is $419, standard, and $629, first.

One-way fares will be $5 to Wall Street ($150 for a one-month pass) and $3 to Midtown ($80 for one month).

Passes for 14 days are reduced to $170 ($125 for students); one-month passes, $234 or $179; two-month passes, $292 or $225.

Reponses will run Thursday and be forwarded to Amtrak for a shot at the big prize, a one-month free pass on the MARC.

The most basic pass for Paris and its close banlieue covers zones 1-2, costing €17.20 for a one-week pass and €56.60 for a one-month pass.

Ninety-minute lessons are Y100, or it costs Y1000 for an unlimited one-month pass.

"I used to give out these free one-month passes to all these cute boys," he says.

He was traveling with his girlfriend on one-month passes and had planned to be back by Nov. 4, her birthday.

The fares, which include bus service from the dock to midtown locations, are $5 each way, $9 round trip and $150 for a one-month pass.