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The Ventra app allows customers to perform the same functions for the CTA as the desktop version including managing Ventra accounts, reloading cards and buying passes. It also has a transit tracker. The difference is the app allows customers to buy Metra tickets including single ride, ten-ride, weekend and monthly passes. [ 21 ]
The blue-and-gold Chicago Card Plus was an account-based card. Users linked the card to either a credit card, debit card, or employer-provided transit benefit program. The cards could be set up as monthly passes or on a pay-per-use basis. The account reloaded from the linked source either when the monthly pass expired or when a user-defined ...
The CTA no longer sells Transit Cards. All remaining Transit Cards must have been used by July 1, 2014. [9] In its place CTA has adopted the Ventra Card system. The Ventra Card can be purchased online, Ventra Vending Machines at CTA rail stations, and at authorized retailers like Walgreens, CVS Pharmacies and check cashing locations.
Chicago Card: Chicago Transit Authority, Pace: 2002 (now defunct) Ventra: Chicago Transit Authority, Pace: 2013 Columbia, SC: COMET Card Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority: Columbus, OH: COTA Smartcard Central Ohio Transit Authority: 2021 (October) Connecticut: Go CT Card: Connecticut Transit: 2018 Dallas, TX: GoPass Tap: Dallas Area ...
Transit Cards were initially used as payment, which riders could refill with money at all transit stops. CTA changed to Ventra Cards on July 1, 2014, as official payment for all transit system. A one-way trip on the train to any stop, whether it be on the Red Line, or a free transfer to any other conjoined rail line, is $2.50.
Many of Pace's route terminals are located at CTA rail stations and bus terminals and Metra stations. The CTA and Pace have shared a payment system since 2014 called Ventra. Ventra accounts are required to obtain transfers. [6] In 2015, Metra was added to the Ventra app. [7] Pace buses generally have longer routes than CTA buses.
Here’s an overview of the Chicago Transit Authority, both its history and its present-day status as the second largest public transportation system in the United States.The largest mass transit ...
The next major step in the development of downtown subways in Chicago came in January 1958, when the Chicago Transit Authority proposed the New Horizons for Chicago's Metropolitan Area, a $315 million, 20-year rapid transit improvement and expansion program to be carried out once financial arrangements had been made. The program was divided ...