{"id":975,"date":"2017-06-16T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2017-06-16T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:28:00","slug":"prepaid-bus-boarding-coming-to-lakeview-lsd-stop-69th-st-red-line-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/prepaid-bus-boarding-coming-to-lakeview-lsd-stop-69th-st-red-line-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepaid Bus-Boarding Coming To Lakeview LSD Stop, 69th St. Red Line Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CTA is testing prepaid bus-boarding at two new locations in hopes of\u00a0reducing\u00a0lines and getting buses moving faster.<br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ads?gdfp_req=1&amp;correlator=113665125020274&amp;output=json_html&amp;callback=googletag.impl.pubads.callbackProxy6&amp;impl=fif&amp;eid=21060057%2C108809080%2C108809107%2C21060196%2C21060362%2C21060355&amp;sc=1&amp;sfv=1-0-9&amp;iu=%2F7228%2Fchicago%2Fdowntown-south-loop-river-north%2Fstory%2F7-stories-make-you-start-weekend-with-smile&amp;sz=300x600&amp;scp=columns%3D%26people%3D%26places%3D%26tags%3D%26topic%3Darts-entertainment%252Cchi-kids%252Cfood-drink%252Curban-animals%26position%3Dundefined%26feature%3Dblock-club-blog%26page_class%3Dstory%26page_category%3D%26environment%3D%26chicago_hood%3Dbeverly%252Cgold-coast%252Clakeview%252Clincoln-park%252Cloop%252Crogers-park%26chicago_prim%3Dloop&amp;eri=1&amp;cookie=ID%3De535c165c94b4bd2%3AT%3D1497640956%3AS%3DALNI_Ma80uU6JXo4KeX2huPxPmUDkApiKw&amp;abxe=1&amp;lmt=1497641156&amp;dt=1497641205456&amp;frm=20&amp;biw=1301&amp;bih=592&amp;oid=3&amp;adx=887&amp;ady=3637&amp;adk=3988437418&amp;gut=v2&amp;ifi=6&amp;u_tz=-300&amp;u_his=4&amp;u_java=true&amp;u_h=731&amp;u_w=1301&amp;u_ah=693&amp;u_aw=1301&amp;u_cd=24&amp;u_nplug=2&amp;u_nmime=4&amp;u_sd=1.05&amp;flash=26.0.0&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dnainfo.com%2Fchicago%2F20170615%2Flakeview%2Fprepaid-bus-boarding-coming-lakeview-lsd-stop-69th-red-line&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dnainfo.com%2Fchicago%2Ftopics%2Ftransportation&amp;dssz=53&amp;icsg=70369296515840&amp;mso=128&amp;vrg=122&amp;vrp=122&amp;rumc=4974959471646368&amp;ga_vid=326017980.1497640935&amp;ga_sid=1497641143&amp;ga_hid=118803901\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-body clearfix container news-story-page story-page visual  chicago\">\n<div class=\"content-wrapper container original-content-type-story\">\n<div class=\"story-wrapper col-xs-12 our-col-sm-5 col-md-8 pull-left\" data-slideshow-zone=\"chicago\/lakeview-wrigleyville\/slideshow\" data-override=\"\/chicago\/story\/lakeview-wrigleyville\/lakeview\/prepaid-bus-boarding-coming-lakeview-lsd-stop-69th-st-red-line-station\" data-canonical-url=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20170615\/lakeview\/prepaid-bus-boarding-coming-lakeview-lsd-stop-69th-red-line\" data-topic=\"transportation\" data-hood=\"Lakeview\" data-tags=\"cta|bus|transportation\" data-story-id=\"815802\" data-grouphood=\"Lakeview &amp; 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waiting area, and when the bus arrives, they board freely, similar to the rail system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, CTA tested prepaid bus service at the Belmont Blue Line station and at the Madison and Dearborn Loop Link station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Belmont test lasted for a year and found that prepaid boarding saved an average of 38 seconds per bus trip, said CTA spokeswoman Irene Ferradaz.\u00a0Permanent prepaid service is being considered as part of a planned redesign of the station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Loop Link test, the CTA found a savings of 16 seconds per bus. The CTA hasn&#8217;t decided whether prepaid bus fares will become\u00a0permanent in the Loop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CTA is testing prepaid bus-boarding at two new locations in hopes of\u00a0reducing\u00a0lines and getting buses moving faster. The two stops affected are: \u2022 The 69th\u00a0Street Red Line station between 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays for the westbound No. 67 (67th\/69th\/71st) and southbound No. 29 (State Street). \u2022 Inner Lake Shore Drive and Belmont &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/prepaid-bus-boarding-coming-to-lakeview-lsd-stop-69th-st-red-line-station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prepaid Bus-Boarding Coming To Lakeview LSD Stop, 69th St. Red Line Station<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/extralarge-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}