Opinion

Put a Metra station at county complex

Posted June 14, 2008 11:00 pm

I would like a logical explanation why Metra does not put a train station at the DuPage County complex in Wheaton. With the thousands upon thousands of visitors and employees who drive automobiles daily to the complex, you would think it would be a no-brainer. The parking situation has become so burdensome that cars are now being parked at the fairgrounds facility.

And as a second part of the question, why hasn't the DuPage County Board itself pressured Metra into putting a station there, as there seems to be plenty of area along the tracks to the north of the complex?

A station there would undoubtedly ease the traffic burden on both Roosevelt Road and County Farm Road as well as at the complex itself without building additional parking structures resulting in, of course, higher taxes.

Again, a no-brainer!

Darrell Sitarz

Wheaton

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