The CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) bus operates the second biggest public transportation system in the Chicago and serves in 40 nearby suburbs (referred to a residential area). It is the second leading transit system in the US and also forth biggest in North America. CTA is an independent governmental agency and it provides online track service on the official website www.transitchicago.com. CTA Bus tracker shows when your bus will arrive at your stop. It is a very easy and fast way to track bus online. Refer the guidelines of using online CTA Bus Tracker through Ctabustracker.com.
Screenshot of www.ctabustracker.com
About CTV Bus:
Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) was founded on October 1, 1947 in Chicago. CTA offers bus and rapid transit service throughout the Chicago city. The CTA had begun operations with the mixture of the transportation assets of the Chicago Surface Lines System and Chicago Rapid Transit Company. CTA is now one of the three service boards monetarily supported by the Regional Transportation Authority. CTA operates 24 hours a day services and on an average weekday provides 1.7 million rides on buses and trains.
It has around 2,000 buses that operate over 154 routes traveling along 3,658 km. The CTA buses provide more than 1 million passenger trips each day and serve over 12,000 bus stops in various areas. CTA also provides “around the clock service” on certain routes. Some of the CTA Bus routes also offer ‘Night Owl’ service during the late night and early morning to the passengers.
It has more than 11,000 employees who operate the whole system of transit. The board consists of seven members, with four appointed by the Mayor of Chicago and three appointed by the Governor of Illinois. The CTA Bus allows payment by three options including, transit cards, pay with cash and Chicago cards, and the CTA train allows only pay with a transit card or a Chicago Card. The CTA has also installed a security camera network for passenger’s safety.
Chicago CTA Bus Tracker online:
Chicago Transit Authority Bus service provides Bus tracker tool on the website www.ctabustracker.com, the tracker system help to reduce your waiting times and travel more comfortably. Recently CTA has installed GPS Bus Tracker system on all buses to show the buses location online anytime. Bus Tracker uses the global-positioning system to track the location of all 2,000 CTA buses. You can check the CTA bus tracker at the official website www.ctabustracker.com, which provides safe, secure and easy way of online tracking anytime anywhere. The CTA bus provides information every minute via the bus tracker application program.
CTA Bus tracker website offers the bus tracking by four ways such as, text massages, receive by E-mail, bus time, and bus map. You can use one of the option to see the bus tracking information.
Bus Times:
If you choose Bus Times option, then you will get the new page of bus tracker, on this page, you will have to first select bus route/direction, and select bus stop. Then you will directly get the route/destination and estimated arrival time of bus. You can also get the map directly by clicking on “Map” option.
Bus Map:
If you select Bus map option, then you get the page of map in which the all cities of the Chicago are mentioned. You can see 4 types of arrows on the left side of this map, which shows the sides of the map. If you want to get the routes of buses, then click on the option of ‘Routes’ which is given on the right side of the page. After then you can click on the ‘Find Stop’ option, you will get the bus stops, select the stop and click on ‘Done’ to get bus information.
Bus Tracker by Text Message:
CTA Bus Tracker can give you anticipated arrival times by text message through mobile phones. You can find Bus tracking via text massage by following simple three steps.
- Search your Stop id
- Text ctabus [stop id] to 41411
- Receive anticipated arrival times
If you do not find Stop Id, then do not worry, follow below steps.
1. Get anticipated arrival times and SMS details from ctabustracker.com:
At the website, you can get estimated arrival times route/bus stop and you will see instructions for which text is as under:
2. Search your bus stop ID in Google Transit directions:
You can get bus Stop Id from Google Transit directions like as follows:
3. Get your stop ID in full Bus Stop lists:
You can get Stop IDs through bus route lists, Stop ID lists now appear on each individual bus route’s page, under “Route Information.” First select bus route and then press “Go” button.
By Email:
CTA Bus Tracker account gives you access to service alerts and bus arrival notifications. If you want to get a bus track by email, then first sign in to your account, click on “Email” option, which is given on the website, then open a login page, where you have to enter Email Address and Password, then click on “Sign In” button. If you are new user then create a new account. Click on “Don’t have an account” link, then open a registration page, enter all required information like, Email Address, Name, SMS or Phone, Password, Confirmed Password and last press on “Create account” button.
You can also call on CTA Customer Service at 1-888-YOUR-CTA. Hearing impaired customers can call CTA Customer Service by TDD/TTY at 1-888-CTATTY1 (1-888-282-8891).
Source: http://ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp
