CTA To Begin Accepting 'Smart' Credit Cards

In a society addicted to buying on credit, the Chicago Transit Authority is hoping to cash in big time.

A "smart" version of those credit cards and bank debit cards stuffed in your wallet will be accepted for payment of CTA bus and train fares in about a year, transit officials told the Tribune on Tuesday.

The card, which will contain a computer chip that allows the user to pay for rides on the CTA, Pace and other participating transit systems, is otherwise a standard credit or a debit card that can be used at all other businesses where it is currently accepted.

"You tap the card against the card reader and get on the CTA. It removes the barrier of having to get our type of fare [card]," CTA President Ron Huberman said.

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Comments

[Eric8869]

The CTA is always concentrating on the wrong things - FIX YOUR SERVICE before you worry about smart cards.

GET THOSE BUSES ON TIME!

[Myshkin57]

And speed up the trains.