Some Excellent News for Parking at the Long Lake Metra Station

A few months ago I wrote about the CMAQ Grant for the Long Lake Metra Station. We had a meeting last week with the Metra designer for a first look at the plan.

We will have 310 spots for the Long Lake station. The picture here is an overlay of the neighborhood in Valley Lakes that will not be built (created by John Gutknecht of Valley Lakes). If you want more details of the who, what, where, why and how my prior blog article on this gives an in-depth look at it.

Okay what does this do for us? Well it gets us two major parking nodes for the village. In the downtown we have existing 360 spots with the addition of 310 spots we will have 670 spots. Then when you add in about 100 news spots at the Round Lake Station with the Public Works move coming soon. In addition the current proposal for our Downtown has an additional 350 spots in two parking garages. Which puts us over 1,000 spaces at 2 stations. Metra's station studies indicate that basically when you build a parking space it will be parked in. Downtown we average 95% occupancy in our parking.