Ventra Tickets You can buy disposable paper Single-Ride and 1-Day tickets at vending machines located in every 'L' station. Ventra Cards Ventra Cards are used with transit value and passes for regular fares and transfers. Opens in a new window Avoid "card clash" Whenever you pay, take out and touch only your desired payment method card, ticket, mobile device, etc.
Get the Ventra app! How to ride with a pass You can get unlimited ride passes, which are good for unlimited rides for one person, anywhere fare is sold. Quick links. Schedules Fares Maps. Alerts Trackers Ventra. System status snapshot. Blue Line Service Change. Brown Line Planned Work. Green Line Normal Service.
Orange Line Normal Service. Pink Line Normal Service. Purple Line Planned Work. Yellow Line Normal Service. All bus alerts: Current bus alerts or Upcoming bus alerts. Elevator alerts. Red Line 47th , Lake , Roosevelt. You can get almost everywhere in the city and some suburbs on a train or bus.
Two routes, the Red and Blue Lines, operate 24 hours, every day. There are bus routes covering 1, miles. These contact-less cards are easy to load with value and easy to use. You just tap and go. Transit value can be used for rides on buses and trains, or applied toward the purchase of a pass. You can use cash and credit cards in stations to load your Ventra card or credit cards online.
You can transfer your Ventra card into your Apple wallet, Then just open the app and scan your phone. Just be advised when you do this the plastic card will no longer work. If you are new to Chicago and living here you may want to have two Ventra cards — one in your Apple wallet and one physical plastic card. You must have a Ventra account with the card registered before you can transfer it to your Apple wallet.
Adding a Ventra Card to Apple Pay. Ventra Tickets are a disposable fare option. These paper, contact-less tickets are vended from machines in every station. Ventra Tickets are good only for a limited time and cannot be loaded again once used up. Your pass activates the first time you use it and is good for the full length of time from that moment.
There are single tickets and three passes available that visitors should consider:. You can use cash in L stations to load your Ventra card, load it with your credit card online or through the Ventra app.. A transfer is good for up to 2 additional rides within 2 hrs. You cannot pay your fare in cash to board the L. You can also buy a transfer. It will deduct the. You can pay your fare in cash when you board the bus. You cannot buy a transfer with cash. If you pay cash and want to transfer to another bus you will have to pay another fare.
The driver does not have change. CTA fares. The CTA offers a bus and rail tracker here. You can find the bus stop number at the bottom of the bus stop sign. The Ventra app also has an excellent transit tracker. You will be able to ride transit like a local and not deal with cash. You can add cash to your card through the app with your credit card. Use up the value and take your last ride with cash.
When you leave you can throw the card away. Do not board the bus and ask how much the fare is for your group and then pull a ziplock bag of money out of your fanny pack and slowly count out singles and then search for coins until you have the fare.
Do not pull out a twenty and ask the drive for change. Do not turn to the bus riders and yell out Does anyone have change for a five?! If you do not have correct fare go to Walgreens, or somewhere and buy something so the register will open and you can get change. Then board the bus. Not being prepared to board the bus slows everything down. You will scan your fare card one time for each person. Additional Pace student fare information is available on the Pace website. Metra allows full-time students enrolled in an accredited grade school or high school to purchase a reduced one-way, ride or monthly pass.
Information on purchasing student tickets is available on the Metra website. Loaded onto a transit account or contactless bankcard. Metra offers Monthly Unlimited Ride Passes. Either pass can be used in conjunction with Metra's Family Fares. Metra montly pass holders can purchase passes to travel on connecting CTA and Pace services. Visit metrarail. South Shore Line fares are based on distance traveled. Visit nictd. CTA and Pace Cash is accepted on buses, no transfers are issued when paying in cash.
Effective February 1,
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