A free weekend of rides and a $13 price reduction for joint Pace-CTA monthly fare cards were approved Wednesday by the suburban bus service’s board.
The monthly passes will be reduced to $75 from $88, a move to make Pace’s price consistent with a September price cut by the Chicago Transit Authority. The free rides, which will be given the weekend of Dec. 5 and 6, aim to promote greater use of Pace services on weekends.
In other action, the board also decided to continue a subsidy agreement with Schaumburg for Route 602. The village, which pays for half of the route’s operation, agreed last month to continue operating the route for at least another six months at a cost of about $19,200.
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The board also approved a $114.1 million operating budget and a $52.1 million capital budget for 1999.
Board members also and viewed a prototype of the new, low-floor wheelchair-accessible bus Pace is ordering from North American Bus Industries. Pace is buying 51 of the buses, which will be in service sometime in 1999, at a cost of $240,000 each.