More Parking to Come

For years we leased the site of the old public works facility from Metra. With the construction of the new facility the old one reverts to Metra and Metra is going to build 155 new parking spaces on the site. The probable tear-down of the facility is in Spring of 2007. With construction of the new lot to follow after that.

I was disappointed to hear that it would take that long, however there was some good news in that 15 spots where employees used to park for the Public Works department will shortly be available for permit parking.

I am happy to say that one of the things that we have been able to do as a board over the last few years is increase our available parking spots from 180 to well over 330 in the last 5 years. With an additional 200 coming soon at the Long Lake station, and 155 arriving in 2007 we are slowly but surely answering the parking issues surrounding our train stations.