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ventra card

Ventra is a public transit card in use in Chicago, Illinois. It is administered by the Chicago Transit Authority, and is a Cubic system.

There are multiple types of tickets in use:

First generation (introduced 2013-08): an open payments system based on MasterCard debit cards. These are silver, have 16 digit card numbers, and a MasterCard logo.

These will expire between 2017-12-31 and 2022-12-31, and will not be re-issued.
Second generation: a proprietary DESFire card, application ID 0x8113f2. These are blue, have 19 digit card numbers, and are unsupportable.
Single-use tickets: Cubic Nextfare MFU