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JULY 18, 2012
Vol. 4 No. 46
Are Joliet commuters all aboard? City, Metra officials seek input from commuters on Multi-Modal Center By Jonathan Samples Staff Reporter
City of Joliet officials and Metra representatives joined forces July 11 to inform commuters about what they can expect when work begins on the Joliet MultiModal Regional Transportation Center this fall. So far, the city has received feedback from the project’s stakeholders such as Metra, Pace and Amtrak, but had not solicited comments from commuters. Wednesday’s open house allowed the Department of Community and Economic Development to field questions from many of the nearly 2,000 commuters who
“We’re to the level
now where we need to get input from the commuters, the actual users, to find out if we’re, pardon the pun, on the right track.” Jim Haller, director of Community and Economic Development. use Joliet’s Union Station daily. “We’ve done a lot of design work, and we’ve done a lot of site and layout work,” Jim Haller, director of Community and
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Joliet city officials expect that proposed changes will benefit Metra and Amtrak users.
Economic Development, said. “We’re to the level now where we need to get input from the commuters, the actual users, to find out if we’re, pardon the pun,
on the right track.” Commuters were able to speak to city and Metra officials, browse display boards depicting the proposed changes, and offer
comments. According to Haller, those changes include new parking areas, train platforms, See COMMUTERS, page 2