Ventra makes for 1 in 3 CTA rides, but jolts await the unconverted

Chicago Card Plus customers who haven't yet activated their Ventra accounts can continue to have money automatically loaded from bank accounts or credit and debit cards onto their Plus accounts until they receive their Ventra card and activate it, CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase said. That's the last day to use both Chicago Cards and Chicago Card Plus cards to board trains and buses, officials said. Chicago Card customers who registered their cards and still are waiting to receive Ventra cards in the mail might need to add money to the cards before the Monday deadline, but not more than they will use over the next six weeks, transit officials advised. Still waiting to receive a Ventra card weeks after getting emails promising the new card is in the mail.

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