Beginning this fall, eligible New York City public school students will receive OMNY cards that offer more free rides and can be used every day of the week, officials said Thursday.

Unlike the student MetroCards they will replace, the new Student OMNY cards will be valid 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, with up to four free rides a day, Mayor Eric Adams and MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said at a press conference in Brooklyn.

Students were previously limited to three free rides each day from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The student MetroCards could also only be used on days when a student’s school was in session.

“This is a long way from the token, and technology allows us to improve on how our young people can move through the city,” Adams said. “We have an obligation in government to find ways to put money back into the pockets of everyday New Yorkers, and that is what we are doing.”

Students will be able to use their OMNY cards on the MTA’s subway lines, as well as on local, limited and Select buses, the Staten Island Railway, the Roosevelt Island Tram and the Hudson Rail Link, Lieber said.  

The Student OMNY cards will also allow for free transfers from one transit mode to another, City Hall said in a release.  

Students will receive the new cards at the start of the school year and keep the same cards for the full year, through the summer, according to the release.

Lieber said the new transit passes were partly a result of a focus group conducted with New York City public high school students regarding fare payment and evasion.

“We learned a lot, and we’re taking action,” the transit chief said.

The city first started handing MetroCards out to public school students in 1997, the release noted.