Originally Posted by flytheworld
On the El, do you buy your ticket from a machine or ticket office? if its from a machine is it easy to understand what type of ticket to buy?
Feel a bit stupid asking these questions, being a regular traveler except I have found sometimes this tickets machines to be a little confusing....
Thanks guys.
It's not like that sort of train system. You simply put money on a card. It's $1.75 each way without transfers. You just walk up to the machine and feed it cash ($1,$5,$10,$20 bills) and when your done hit vend and it spits out a flimsy card that you put in the machine and it deducts the necessary funds and then your on the train. It costs the same to go one stop as from one end of the line to another.