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The Chicago Card and the Chicago Card Plus were contactless smart cards used by riders of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and Pace to electronically pay for bus and train fares in the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA and the surrounding suburbs.
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.
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 279,146,200, or about 993,700 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
On any weekday, 832,000 rides are taken on the CTA (buses and the “L”). There are 1,864 buses, 129 routes and 10,768 posted bus stops. Average weekday ridership was 445,445 in 2022.
The CTA operates 24 hours a day and, on an average weekday, 1.6 million rides are taken on the CTA. City of Chicago bus stop, served by CTA buses, with 3D ad. CTA has approximately 2,000 buses that operate over 152 routes and 2,273 route miles (3,658 km). Buses provide about 1 million passenger trips a day and serve more than 12,000 posted bus ...
More help is on the way for some Chicago residents struggling with soaring gas prices and transportation costs 'Chicago Moves' program to make free gas, CTA cards available amid high gas prices ...
Pace is the suburban bus and regional paratransit division of the Regional Transportation Authority serving the Chicago metropolitan area.It was created in 1983 by the RTA Act, which established the formula that provides funding to the CTA, Metra, and Pace.
In 2004, the CTA, projecting a $55 million funding shortfall in its 2005 budget, called for a "long term funding solution," involving a change to the sales tax distribution formula in the RTA Act. [20] In response, the Illinois General Assembly appropriated $54 million to cover the cost of CTA's paratransit service for 2005. [21]