CTA’s Ventra fare scheme suffers riders’ blowback

By Charlie Meyerson

Mar 12, 2013, 5:00am CT

Quincy Station, Brown Line to Kimball. Flickr/vincent desjardins

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Quincy Station, Brown Line to Kimball. Flickr/vincent desjardins

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CTA’s Ventra fare scheme suffers riders’ blowback

By Charlie Meyerson

Mar 12, 2013, 5:00am CT

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Quincy Station, Brown Line to Kimball, (vincent desjardins, on Flickr)

‘THIS IS NO MORE THAN A DOG AND PONY SHOW.’ That’s one CTA rider’s protest, as quoted in the Tribune, at last night’s hearing on a new fare payment system set to take effect this summer, if the CTA board OKs it in a vote Wednesday.
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