The RTA, Metra, and Cook County are partnering to extend reduced fares to Metra riders experiencing low incomes regionwide through theAccess Pilot Program. All recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, living in the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will...
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CHICAGO (CBS)– This week, Metra's been holding hearings for riders to sound off. The focus of the hearings is on fares, but commuters who reached out to CBS 2 have other bones to pick. CBS 2's Lauren Victory heard from one rider on their complaints about scheduling. ...
2025. Show your Access Card to a conductor to buy a reduced fare One-Way Ticket onboard a train. When selecting tickets or passes to buy on the Ventra app or via a ticket vending machine, look for the Access program under Reduced Fare Tickets; you do not need the Access Card to purch...
Chicago’s Metra Board of Directors agreed to test a new day pass, the consolidation of Metra’s outer zones, and the reassignment of certain stations to a closer zone as part of an effort to attract riders and simplify its fare structure. The ideas were among recommendations that emerged fr...
The Metra board has also placed strict limits on purchases of 10-ride tickets, to minimize hoarding. Those changes take effect immediately. The last time fares increased, by 10 percent in 2008, the sales of 10-ride tickets nearly doubled in the weeks immediately preceding the hike. Ten-ride...
Metra’s board of directors approved the agency’s budget for Fiscal Year 2024, which included significant changes to the way the agency collects and charges fares on its network of train lines. Some big changes are coming throughout Metra’s system, including on its busiest line. ...
“brick wall,” as Johnson calls it, penalize bus riders, especially low-wage workers. Metra, he said, should allow a transfer discount, similar to the discount offered by CTA for bus and rail riders using the Ventra card. Charging people two full fares limits who can ride Metra, Johnson...