The End Of The Paper Transit Card?

[BusHunter]

I couldn't help but notice that Pace says on these paper transfer cards they issue, that they will no longer be issuing them after tomorrow without a Ventra card. Does that mean these cards are all going to be history?

[Busjack]

I couldn't help but notice that Pace says on these paper transit cards they issue, that they will no longer be issuing them after tomorrow without a Ventra card. Does that mean these cards are all going to be history?

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If you are referring to transfer cards (as opposed to stored value transit cards) the answer is yes, in that Pace announced that the scope of the budget hearings included abolishing selling transfers with cash fares,* thus putting them in line with what CTA has been doing for the past couple of years.

There was also the previous discussion about Pace minutes referring to that if free transfers were allowed between buses in collar cities, Ventra would be reprogrammed to allow that.

*Discontinuation of issuing cash transfers.

Riders who pay a fare in cash cannot pay cash

for a transfer to the next bus. Cash payers

will pay full fare each time they board a vehicle.

Ventra users will continue to pay 25 cents for

a transfer when using stored transit value.

Effective December 15, 2013.

That announcement also came out and said that bank cards would be charged as though cash, something CTA took its time saying:

Unregistered personal contactless credit card/debit card usage.

Riders who pay with an

unregistered personal contactless credit/debit

card will be charged as if paying cash; including

paying full fare each time they board a vehicle.

[jesi2282]

Paper transfers will live beyond this Sunday, Pace has postponed their discontinuance...

[Busjack]

Paper transfers will live beyond this Sunday, Pace has postponed their discontinuance...

I thought I read that. The Pace Ventra page now says the cutoff is July 1, 2014.