The MTA today unveiled four separate plans for fare and toll hikes today, an unpalatable medley of options that the agency is asking its riders to weigh in on during a series of public meetings next month.
Two of the plans would leave the base fare at its current $2.25 rate, with more dramatic increases in unlimited ride MetroCards and discounts plans.
One of those plans raises the price of monthly MetroCards to $125 — up from its current $104 — and weekly cards to $34.
The weeklies are now $29.
It also reduces the seven percent discount on all pay-per-ride MetroCard purchases over $10 to five percent.
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The second of the options that keeps the base rate at $2.25 completely eliminates the pay-per-ride discount.
That plan hikes monthly MetroCards to $119 and the weekly to $32.
The other pair of plans raise the base rate to $2.50.
They differ in the amounts added to unlimited MetroCards and the bonus rates.
One gets rid of the bonus rate entirely and hikes the monthly MetroCard price to $109.
That plan leaves weekly MetroCards at the current price of $29.
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The other plan keeps the pay-per-ride discount at seven percent and raises the Monthly MetroCard to $112 and the weekly to $30.
That plan also calls for rasing the price of Express Buses from $5.50 to $6.00
All of the four plans include a one dollar surcharge to purchase a MetroCard.
Tolls on bridges and tunnels will also go up.
Drivers paying cash on the already exorbitant Verrazano Bridge will begin paying $15, up from $13.
Drivers who live on Staten Island and sign up for the resident discount plan will pay $6.36 a trip.
The current rate under the resident’s plan is $5.76.
The major MTA crossings — the Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels, and the Throgs Neck, Bronx-Whitestone, and Robert F Kennedy Bridges — will go up a dollar each way for cash tolls.
E-ZPass prices on those crossings will go up fifty cents each way.
Long Island Rail Road and MetroNorth fares will go up about 8.2 to 9.31 percent from their current rates.
The price of an LIRR city ticket — which covers trips within New York City — will inch up a quarter to $4.00.
A peak ride trip from Mineola to Penn Station will cost $11 — a buck more than its present price of $10.
That same trip off peak will cost eight dollars, up from $7.25.
A monthly pass from Mineola will go from $223 from $242.
A MetroNorth trip from White Plains to Grand Central will be $11.25 during peak times and $8.50 off-peak.
The monthly rate for regular riders of that route will be $249, up from $229.
The MTA has not decided on which plan it will choose to raise fares in March.
Officials said they are waiting for input from the public to see which ones are the most popular.
The MTA is holding 12 public hearings in November to discuss the hikes.
The first will be held on Nov. 7 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge and Farmingdale State College in Long Island.
The Manhattan hearing is at Baruch College on Nov. 13, while the Bronx meeting is at Hostos Community College on the same day.
Staten Island residents looking to fight the fare and toll hikes can attend the Nov. 14 hearing at the College of Staten Island.
The Queens hearing is on Nov. 15 at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel.
There’s also hearings in Yonkers, Newburgh, as well as video conferences in Manhattan, Hicksville, Poughkeepsie, and Ronkonkoma.
jennifer.fermino@nypost.com