The same principle applies to other CTA and Pace passes. Activate it at noon and you would be able to use it for decent chunks of two whole days. This may seem like a small distinction, but it’s an important one, because this means that if you, for example, activated it at 10:00 AM, it’s still good until 10:00 AM the following morning. So here are a couple of tips and tricks for taking full advantage of some of the more obscure features of local transit.Ī CTA one-day pass isn’t actually good for just one calendar day – it’s good for exactly 24 hours from the moment of activation. But there are many things about those systems that are less obvious, which one can learn by looking through websites, or just by sheer luck and experience, things that open up whole new public transit possibilities. In the Chicago region there’s the Ventra card for riding CTA and Pace, Metra’s fare zones, and the intricacies of schedules.

When you use any public transportation system, it doesn’t take that long to understand the basics.

Cta pace bus tracker