tedernst ([info]tedernst) wrote in [info]chicago_el,
@ 2005-12-10 10:50:00
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CTA no longer accepting PACE transfers?
Does anyone have any more information than I can find through google news? Here's my post about it with what I know. As I say in that post, this will make the el to Linden useless for me and will force me onto Metra all the time (I can leave a bike full-time at the Metra stop).

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[info]zolk
2005-12-10 05:49 pm UTC (link)
Get a Chicago Card. Problem solved.

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Chicago Card
[info]tedernst
2005-12-10 06:03 pm UTC (link)
I have one. The only article I found about this doens't mention the Chicago Card exception. If that's true, then I can relax. I had heard about the "no cash transfers" proposal, but this news story didn't mention that, only PACE.

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Re: Chicago Card
[info]5500
2005-12-10 06:23 pm UTC (link)
everything I've read indicates that CTA and PACE will continue to cooperate as before w/r/t the Chicago Card.

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Re: Chicago Card
[info]tedernst
2005-12-10 09:46 pm UTC (link)
That's excellent news. Thanks.

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Re: Chicago Card
[info]zolk
2005-12-10 07:03 pm UTC (link)
The change applies only to cash transfers. Pace has a bad habit of failing to tell anyone about the Chicago Card.

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[info]kninchicago
2005-12-11 04:48 am UTC (link)
Can someone clarify this for me--if you purchase a Chicago Card, you can deduct money from it on Pace, CTA, and Metra? Do you have to set it up in any certain fashion to do that? Or do you just put your money on the card and that's all you have to do?

I never take Metra or Pace hence my confusion. I had a coworker who asked me about it and I wasn't sure.

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Chicago Card
[info]tedernst
2005-12-11 07:50 am UTC (link)
PACE & CTA yes, Metra no. With the exception of PACE busses being $1.50, you can treat them as if they were CTA busses and your Chicago Card will do you just fine. You do not need to do anything special. It's automatic.

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[info]chi_thirdrail
2005-12-12 03:21 am UTC (link)
Both Transit Cards and Chicago Cards work the same on CTA and Pace in what's a rare collaboration between two totally different transit agencies (I believe Chicago had the first unified fare system between two separate transit agencies).

Metra has pretty much said that they are perfectly happy with the way fares are collected on Metra, and won't even allow for people to use credit cards to buy their monthly passes (making some outrageous charge that to cover they costs they'd have to raise everyone's monthly fare by like $7). There's like no hope for Metra ever really becoming a part of the city's transit system.

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Metra fare integration with the others
[info]tedernst
2005-12-12 04:19 am UTC (link)
I was thinking about last night. While what you say is surely true, let's imagine a different administration at Metra. How would they accomplish fare integration? I was thinking about conductors carrying a hand-held Chicago Card reader instead of their hole-punches. If you have a monthly pass, nothing changes, you just carry the paper pass. Otherwise, you either hand your Chicago Card to the conductor and the machine beeps, passing whatever information is needed to charge you. Maybe you'd have to tell the conductor your origin and destination and s/he would have to punch in C/A or whatever. I dunno. Was just thinking. It'll be a pain in the neck if it ever happens.

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Re: Metra fare integration with the others
[info]nowthatsbleach
2005-12-16 12:18 am UTC (link)
*calls for Jeffery Ladd's head* (or whoever the head of Metra is, lol)

i can't believe they'd have the nerve to claim it'd cost $7 more per rider to process CTA/Pace Chicago Cards, or regular transit cards!! haha....

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[info]daland
2005-12-11 01:58 pm UTC (link)
LOLOLOLOL THIS IS ONLY GOING TO MAKE LIFE HARDER FOR THE HOMELESS WHO COMMUTE IN FROM THE SUBURBS EVERY DAY.

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[info]kninchicago
2005-12-13 03:39 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the info, everyone. My coworker who I was chatting with regarding the Metra system has to go deposit a check every month at the Metra offices to get her pass pre-tax! I thought that sounded like a terrible setup, not customer oriented at all. I was hoping that I could find a solution to her problem (we have no real HR department so management basically has to wing it...we're a non-profit with under 5 full time employees!).

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