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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 ]
On June 1, 2014, CTA and Pace stopped accepting these cards as part of a transition to Ventra. [1] The blue Chicago Card was a stored value card. Users added value to the card at CTA vending machines or at select retail locations, and turnstiles or fareboxes deducted value from the card. Users usually registered cards with CTA and could receive ...
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.
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.
October 31, 1993 - The CTA introduces rail service to Midway International Airport. August 18, 1997 - Fare cards are first used. June 1, 1999 - Use of tokens is discontinued.
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") [4] is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois.Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at 102.8 miles (165.4 km) long as of 2014, [1] [note 1] and the third-busiest rapid ...
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 ...
For the first 28 years of O'Hare station's operations, passengers paid the same fare to enter as they would at any other "L" station. A premium fare was imposed on O'Hare passengers in 2013; first (in January 2013), only passengers buying single-ride tickets had to pay the surcharge; by July of the same year, the surcharge was imposed on most other passengers (those using Ventra or a Ventra ...