Northern Indiana town balks at funding Amtrak line
DYER, Ind. — A northern Indiana town that’s served by an Amtrak line that runs between Indianapolis and Chicago is balking at contributing money to a state-led plan that’s kept the line running.
The Lake County town of Dyer is the sole holdout in the plan to keep the Hoosier State passenger line operating for at least one year in response to a cutoff of federal funding.
Other communities along the line are contributing money and services to keep it running.
But Dyer Town Manager Rick Eberly tells The (Munster) Times the town just doesn’t “have the ridership “ to justify spending the $5,000 per month state officials requested.
Amtrak statistics show that about 2,900 passengers got on and off trains in fiscal year 2013 at the Dyer platform.
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