Village takes step to adress Metra Parking Issues

The higher price of gas has pushed Metra ridership upwards in the last months by almost 5%. What does this mean to the village? Well for one thing our 360 parking spaces are full almost every other day. We usually are at 90% capacity everyday with small spikes upwards each Monday and Tuesday.

I directed the village engineers and public works department to plan a quick fix to some of the issues we are facing with this overload of Metra riders.

In the next few days the area (marked with the yellow line) in the picture will become 12-14 temporary parking spots for Permit Parkers only!

The village is also taking steps to better manage the traffic flow of the stations southwest lot by restriping and making traffic flow one way only. We feel this will get cars out on the road and off to home slightly faster then currently.

Lastly once we move into the Police and Public Works facility this winter, the old public works area will become available for almost 100-120 more spots, at some point in early 2006.