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The difference is the app allows customers to buy Metra tickets including single ride, ten-ride, weekend and monthly passes. [21] Metra provides about 300,000 trips per day. Nearly 60 percent of riders use monthly passes. In August, the most recent month for which figures were available, Metra sold some 94,000 monthly passes. [22]
Riders using Ventra pay $2.25 for bus, $2.50 for rail (except Blue Line O'Hare station, $5). Disabled & seniors who are 65 or older pay $1.10 for bus, $1.25 for rail. Elementary and high school students 7–20 years old: Valid 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on school days pay $.75 during school hours and pay $1.10 during weekends and holidays.
Under the pilot, all riders on the Metra Electric and Rock Island lines will pay Metra's reduced fare rates. On the Union Pacific North Line , passengers headed to an event at Ravinia Park may ride to the event for free after showing their Ravinia Festival e-ticket to the conductor.
In DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties people pay a 0.5% sales tax. Illinois has set aside $275 million from the Rebuild Illinois capital plan to pay for restoration of passenger rail ...
As of 2018, Jefferson Park is the 97th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 510 weekday boardings. [ 2 ] As of May 30, 2023, Metra's Jefferson Park station is served by 60 trains (29 inbound, 31 outbound) on weekdays, by 31 trains (16 inbound, 15 outbound) on Saturdays, and by 19 trains (nine inbound, 10 outbound) on ...
The RTA [48] and Metra [49] boards were reapportioned, effective April 1, 2008, with the most significant changes being that the chair of the CTA may no longer be on the RTA board, and the President of the Cook County Board was given an appointment to the RTA and Metra boards, respectively.
With an average weekday ridership of 294,600 in 2015, Metra is the fourth-busiest commuter rail system in the United States, only behind New York City metropolitan area systems. [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.
Why is the Illinois Tollway making this change? The stickers are being introduced in step with 19 other states, the tollway said. Therefore, I-PASS customers will be able to use their sticker tag ...