eolesen wrote:doepack wrote:This also works with 10-ride tickets as well, though you'd have to notify the conductor in advance. On the first leg, they will either punch "I" (if it's a stopover) or "O" (if transferring downtown, or between local and express trains on MED), then the number is punched on the second train to your destination. Depending on which segment of your trip is longer, you'll need to have a ticket corresponding to that zone; in Tad's example above, he would need a 10-ride that was bought in Joliet (zone H)...
There aren't any checks and balances to prevent it on a monthly pass, but I don't think it would work between lines on a 10 ride... Conductors recognize the punch marks on their own lines. If they see foreign punches on a 10-ride, I don't think they're going to agree with you on what constitutes a transfer...
I talked this over with a UP/W conductor tonight, and he said that you CAN use them for transferring to other lines, but both trains would have to be either inbound or outbound; you can't use them to transfer between trains downtown as I previously thought. With that in mind, transferring on a 10-ride is pretty much limited to:
* Between local and express trains on MED at 57th St. or Kensington
* At Blue Island between RID and MED
* At River Grove between MDW and NCS
There may be other similar cases, but you get the general idea. He also confirmed what is written on the on the back of my (and every other) 10-ride ticket: Conductors must be notified of stopovers or transfers in advance, so that I" or "O" next to the number is punched first...