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Chicago Transit Agency Takes Next Step to Have Plastic Pay Way.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004
By Jon Hilkevitch, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 16--With a new CTA "smart" card debuting next week that allows riders to add money through their credit cards, the Chicago Transit Authority is moving a step closer to a fare system where cash is rarely used.
Experts said the move knocks down another barrier to creation of a universal transportation card that would help unify Chicago-area mass transit. Such a card would also be used to pay for Amtrak and airline tickets, taxi and limousine rides and tolls on the Illinois tollway system.
The Chicago Card Plus, which is costing the CTA about $1 million to roll out, is designed to lower internal costs--potentially helping postpone the next fare increase--and...
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