This comes in handy in several places in the city and the suburbs where several Pace routes serve the same corridor for more than a few blocks. But texting “Pace ” to 41411 will give you informational all of the buses that stop there. But the Pace bus tracker only lets you view information for one route at the time. As CTA riders know, the transit agency’s transit tracker app and its web equivalent displays all buses or trains that come to that particular stop or station. While this is obviously benefits riders who don’t use smartphones, it also comes with a feature that’s useful no matter what kind of phone you have. Pace launched its own version of it more recently, at the start of 2015. You just text “CTABUS” or “CTATRAIN,” followed by a bus stop number or ’L’ station name, to 41411.
Pace’s texts-based bus tracker is useful in situations like this stop near the Lake Street/Harlem Avenue intersection, where riders can take two different buses to go as far as Melrose Park.ĬTA riders have been able to get real-time arrival information by texting since 2010. It’s a risky thing to rely on, but the option is there. There have been times when I managed to get through the turnstile within five minutes from expiration or, in one particularly memorable case, down to less than a minute. Whatever pass you purchase, check the exact time when the pass expires, and plan your travel accordingly. And a 30-day pass can be stretched for almost an entire month. A 7-Day pass can be stretched out for eight. A CTA 5-Day pass can be stretched out for six. The same principle applies to other CTA and Pace passes. Activate it at noon and you would be able to use it for decent chunks of two whole days. This may seem like a small distinction, but it’s an important one, because this means that if you, for example, activated it at 10:00 AM, it’s still good until 10:00 AM the following morning. So here are a couple of tips and tricks for taking full advantage of some of the more obscure features of local transit.Ī CTA one-day pass isn’t actually good for just one calendar day – it’s good for exactly 24 hours from the moment of activation.
But there are many things about those systems that are less obvious, which one can learn by looking through websites, or just by sheer luck and experience, things that open up whole new public transit possibilities. In the Chicago region there’s the Ventra card for riding CTA and Pace, Metra’s fare zones, and the intricacies of schedules. When you use any public transportation system, it doesn’t take that long to understand the basics.
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