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A group tasked with making recommendations about the future of public transit is weighing changes to fares, sales taxes and the very concept of maintaining the CTA, Metra and Pace as separate ...
CHICAGO — Metra is extending its Family Fares to all travel and offering special holiday passes for Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, it announced Tuesday. Metra’s Family Fares allow up to ...
A new day pass could soon allow CTA, Metra and Pace users to pay for rides across all three systems’ buses and trains, a step toward long-awaited complete integration of fares among the region ...
The station at Chicago Street in downtown Elgin is presented as the preferred choice, offering a connection to Pace's Elgin Transportation Center. [6] Fares are yet to be determined, and are expected to be structured differently than existing commuter rail fares. IDOT and Metra are working together to determine appropriate pricing.
Again, the legislature having failed to pass a transit bill, the three service boards proposed 2008 budgets that assumed no new funding and postulated service cuts by CTA and Pace, and the deferral of capital projects by Metra, as well as fare increases by all three agencies. [30]
[1] [2] The Metra system has a total of 243 active stations spread out on 11 rail lines with 487.5 miles (784.6 km) of tracks. [1] [3] As of May 2024, an infill station, Auburn Park, is currently under construction on the Rock Island District. The newest Metra station in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago opened on May 20, 2024.
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Ventra is an electronic fare payment system for the Illinois Regional Transportation Authority which replaced the Chicago Card and the Transit Card automated fare collection systems. Ventra (purportedly Latin for "windy," though the actual Latin word is ventosa ) [ 1 ] launched in August 2013, with a full system transition occurring in July 2014.