{"id":8263,"date":"2017-12-29T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2017-12-29T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:16:08","slug":"cta-to-provide-free-rides-extra-service-for-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=8263","title":{"rendered":"CTA to Provide Free Rides, Extra Service for New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6925\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CTA-Logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CTA also offers additional service for Bulls game, WGCI Big Jam this weekend<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: All CTA bus and rail service will operate on a\u00a0Sunday\u00a0schedule on both\u00a0Sunday, December 31\u00a0and\u00a0Monday, January 1, when the New Year is a\u00a0nationally observed holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Transit Authority is a convenient and affordable transit option for traveling to events around Chicago this weekend, including the &#8220;New\u00a0Year&#8217;s Eve Fireworks&#8221; event at Navy Pier. Free rides will be provided through a sponsorship from Miller Lite on CTA buses and trains beginning\u00a010 p.m.\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday, December 31\u00a0until\u00a04 a.m.\u00a0Monday, January 1.<\/p>\n<p>For customers traveling to and from events around Chicago this New Year&#8217;s Eve outside the free ride period, the CTA recommends purchasing fares in\u00a0advance, which will decrease travel times and avoid long lines at rail station vending machines. Customers can load ahead of time transit value or\u00a0unlimited ride passes (1-day, 3-day, 7-day and 30-day) to their Ventra fare cards at rail stations, online or at nearly1,000 local retailers (locations\u00a0available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ventrachicago.com\">ventrachicago.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Customers can also pay their fares with their personal contactless debit or credit cards and add value to their accounts by using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ventrachicago.com\">Ventra<\/a>\u00a0App,\u00a0available for free download via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ventrachicago.com\">www.ventrachicago.com<\/a>, the App Store and Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>Full travel details are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitchicago.com\">transitchicago.com\/alerts<\/a>. CTA recommends allowing plenty of travel time and purchasing fares and unlimited-ride\u00a0passes ahead of time. More information about purchasing fares is below.<\/p>\n<p>Extra New Year&#8217;s Eve Service<\/p>\n<div>\u2022 Rail: Red, Blue, Green, Brown, Orange, Yellow and Purple lines<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Bus: #4 Cottage Grove, #6 Jackson Park Express, #22 Clark, #29 State, #65 Grand, #66\u00a0Chicago, #79 79th Street, #124\u00a0Navy Pier and #151\u00a0Sheridan<\/div>\n<p>United Center Events<br \/>\nIndiana Pacers vs. Chicago Bulls &#8211;\u00a0Fri. 12\/29 at 7 p.m.<br \/>\nWGCI Big Jam &#8211;\u00a0Sat. 12\/30 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<div>\u2022 Rail: Green, Pink and Blue lines<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Bus: #19 United Center Express, #20 Madison and #50 Damen<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: \u00a0Alderman Walter Burnette, Jr &#8211; 27th Ward Newsletter \u00a012\/29\/17<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTA also offers additional service for Bulls game, WGCI Big Jam this weekend NOTE: All CTA bus and rail service will operate on a\u00a0Sunday\u00a0schedule on both\u00a0Sunday, December 31\u00a0and\u00a0Monday, January 1, when the New Year is a\u00a0nationally observed holiday. The Chicago Transit Authority is a convenient and affordable transit option for traveling to events around Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}