Click here to download the form. You may be eligible for savings of up to 40 percent when you participate in an IRS-approved Transit Benefit program where you work. In order to benefit, your employer must offer a qualified program, and you must be a W-2 employee contractors, partners and other selected individuals are not eligible. For more information, visit our Fares page. Tickets are available for purchase at all downtown stations and at all outlying stations where a ticket agent is on duty or a vending machine is available.
The Ventra app can be used to purchase any kind of Metra mobile ticket on your smartphone, anytime and anywhere. Tickets are not sold on this website. No refund or replacement ticket will be issued for lost, destroyed or stolen One-Way, Ride, Weekend or Monthly Passes. Refunds for unused Monthly Passes are available per the guidelines that can be found here.
Metra is not responsible for lost articles, errors in timetables, or for inconvenience or damage resulting from missed stops; delayed, cancelled or missed trains; failure to make connections; or shortages of equipment. Generally yes, but see our What's Allowed on Metra Trains for the full list of rules. No smoking is allowed on any trains, in stations or within 15 feet of station and enclosed area entrances this includes e-cigarettes.
Pets are permitted on weekend trains and non-peak weekday trains trains arriving in Chicago before a. Only small pets in enclosed protective carriers are allowed. Carriers will not be allowed to take up seats, seating areas or obstruct pathways on trains or in stations and must be small enough to be carried on by a single person.
Metra reserves the right to remove passengers with pets that are noisy or disturb other customers. Owners will be responsible for the behavior and cleanup of their pets. To give passengers some peace and quiet during their commute, Metra has designated Quiet Cars on all morning inbound and evening outbound rush-hour trains.
The cars are designed to give riders a space free of some common nuisances such as cellphone calls, loud headphones and loud conversations. On all lines except the Metra Electric Line, the Quiet Cars are the second car from the locomotive and the second car from the other end of the train on rush-hour trains with six or more cars. If there are five cars or fewer on the train, only the second car from the engine is a Quiet Car. There are no Quiet Cars on two-car trains. All Quiet Cars are identified with decals on outside of the car and signage inside the car.
The rules are simple: No cell phone calls. If passengers must answer their phones, they should make it brief or move to the vestibule or another car. Conversations are discouraged; if they must be held they should be short and in subdued voices. All electronic devices must be muted, and headphones should not be loud enough for anyone else to hear. Quiet Cars are in effect on all inbound trains arriving downtown at or before 9 a.
Metra expects Quiet Cars to be largely enforced by peer pressure. Many riders said that having a rule in place empowered them to ask noisy people to be quiet or move. New rail cars would replace older cars, and could have a different design that would accommodate more people and allow for easier boarding.
That could help with delays, which in part can be caused by doors on old cars getting stuck during inclement weather. Another cause is slow boarding, which can be alleviated by more seats on cars, more doors and fewer stairs, Metra officials said. A typical bi-level car currently holds people. Metra has been plagued in the last year by multiple delays on the system, caused by old equipment, overcrowding, bad weather, freight interference, a recent Amtrak computer mishap and the implementation of Positive Train Control, new federally mandated safety technology.
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Riders are charged based on the number of zones they travel through. Details about each ticket type are below. All ticket types except weekend passes and day passes are available at a reduced rate for K students, seniors and other special classes as described below.
Use the fare calculator above to see the cost of each type of ticket, full fare and reduced, between your selected origin and destination stations. For information about where to buy tickets, click here. New riders can find more information about the Metra system here. Because of the pandemic and work-from-home orders, Metra has extended the validity of all One-Way and Ride tickets.
If you have tickets that expired in March or later, or tickets that are scheduled to expire before Dec. Paper tickets that expired can be used on the trains up to and including Dec. However, if you have Ventra tickets that expired or will expire before Dec. For travel from one station destination to another.
One-Way Tickets are valid for 90 days including the day of purchase, and they are not refundable. These tickets are good for unlimited rides on a single day between the zones selected. Available in the Ventra app only. Round Trip Plus tickets are valid for 90 days including the day of purchase, and they are not refundable. These tickets are good for one year.
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