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What’s old is new at Grayslake Metra station: Pay boxes replace machines for daily parking fees

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Grayslake has gone retro at the village's Lake Street Metra commuter rail station. Machines have been replaced by pay boxes for daily parking fees. The devices replaced the boxes in 2002.

Paul Valade | Staff Photographer

The old electronic payment machines at the Lake Street Metra commuter rail station in Grayslake are no longer used. Manual pay boxes have been installed.

Paul Valade | Staff Photographer

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Pay boxes have replaced the electronic units at Grayslake's Lake Street Metra station.

Paul Valade | Staff Photographer

New shelters have been built to cover the new pay boxes at the Grayslake Lake Street Metra station.

Paul Valade | Staff Photographer

This is an artist rendering of what will be a revamped Metra commuter rail station on Lake Street in Grayslake. Work is expected to be completed in late October.

Courtesy village of Grayslake

The automatic payment machines at the Grayslake Lake Street Metra commuter rail station are no longer used. Manual pay boxes have been installed.

Paul Valade | Staff Photographer

Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com Pay boxes have replaced the electronic units at Grayslake's Lake Street Metra station.

Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com Grayslake is turning back the clock at the village's Lake Street Metra commuter rail station. Supposedly high-tech automatic payment machines that accepted cash and credit for daily parking are being replaced by old-school pay boxes.

This is an artist rendering of what will be a revamped Metra commuter rail station on Lake Street in Grayslake. Work is expected to be completed in late October.

Courtesy village of Grayslake

Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com New shelters have been built to cover the new pay boxes at the Graysalke Lake Street Metra station.

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Grayslake has turned back the clock at the village's Metra commuter rail station on Lake Street. Machines were installed at the depot 10 years ago to accept daily parking fees and replaced metal pay boxes that required commuters to slide dollar bills or coins through a numbered slot. But old-school is cool again at the Lake Street station. The machines have been scrapped and the pay boxes are back.