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Simply tap your smartphone with the Ventra app at rail station terminals or on CTA buses to board and enjoy Chicago! See tips about how to ride.

The Ventra app is a safe and convenient way to buy and display Metra tickets on your smartphone with a credit or debit card or a Ventra account. Download the app for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Then use it to buy any kind of Metra ticket on the go, anytime, anywhere.

CTA's train system is known as the 'L' (a now-official name originally short for "elevated").

#1—Establishing a new maximum speed on the Yellow Line from 55 mph to 35 mph.

Maximum achievable running speed in excess of 200 km/h (124 mph), or 250 km/h (155 mph) for very high-speed, Average running speed across the corridor in excess of 150 km/h (93 mph), or 200 km/h (124 mph) for very high-speed.

Note that your credit or debit card may be authorized for $5 when you first touch it to a fare reader, even though the actual fare is less. This is a temporary pre-authorization, and you'll only be charged the actual fare once it's reconciled in your payment account (this usually happens after about a day).

The backbone of Chicago's suburbs, Pace serves tens of thousands of daily riders. One of the largest bus services in North America, Pace covers 3,677 square miles, an area nearly the size of the state of Connecticut and about 15 times the size of the City of Chicago.

You don't even have to use a card issued by us.

If you have a credit or debit card with the contactless payment symbol ( ), you can pay-as-you-go by touching your card to a reader or even create a Ventra Transit Account on that card, and load value and passes onto that.

On the bus, you can pay for a one-way fare in cash. Exact change is required (no change is given). Buses accept $1 bills and most coins (no half-dollars). Transfer is not available when paying in cash on the bus.

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Use transit in and around all of Chicago: It's easy to manage and pay your fare on CTA, Metra and Pace buses and trains with the Ventra app. Find all the features you're used to on the Ventra website and more, including mobile ticketing for Metra trains!

"The term 'el' can be short for 'elevated railway' generically, but our system has used 'L' since the 1890s. This proper, official nickname extends to elevated, at-grade, and underground tracks, and is used on official CTA materials." McClelland notes that using L can confuse readers and El probably makes more sense.

Hours of service vary, so be sure to check schedules or use a Trip Planner before you go. Red Line and Blue Line train service operates at all times (24 hours per day, every day) as well as several bus routes.

The Kostner station is, on average, the least used "L" station per year.

Federal regulators limit the speed of trains with respect to the signaling method used. Passenger trains are limited to 59 mph and freight trains to 49 mph on track without block signal systems.

The speed limit on the system's only overhead catenary-powered line is 65 mph. But according to Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski, that is a holdover from the 1920s, based on what the brakes could handle at the time. By comparison, the speed limit of the South Shore Line from the Loop to South Bend, IN is 79 mph.

The Blue Line is already a competitive train service

Some of the branch's tracks are already in good enough shape to allow for speeds greater than the CTA's systemwide speed limit of 55 mph, and all of its train cars are capable of traveling 70 mph.

How Fast Can a Train Engine Go? Locomotives have gearing that limits their maximum speed. A typical diesel-electric freight engine has a maximum speed of 60 or 65 MPH, regardless of what the track speed limit is. Most passenger engines, like an F40PH-2, are geared for higher speeds like 103 or 110 MPH.