Hipmunk's app has an easy-to-read calendar display of fares by date, and trips are shown with a time bar and connections labeled in the middle making it easy to see duration and routing.

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Verizon, the main New York phone company, has now said that it will make all 4, 000 of its public payphones in the city free "for the duration of the current emergency", and unlike in normal times would lift the bar on incoming calls.

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