Politics & Government
City Needs $4.5M to Build Underpass at West Lake Forest Station
A recent pedestrian fatality has reinforced the need to make the station safer, officials say.
Lake Forest has secured $2 million of the $6.5 million needed to build a pedestrian underpass at the West Lake Forest Train Station, a project city staff have been working on since 2009, according to an article in the Lake Forester.
The recent death of Mark E. Worden, a 59-year-old from Chicago who was hit while walking across the tracks last month after being dropped off by a coworker, has reinforced the need for a safer crossing.
An underpass is also a requirement to lure Amtrak to add a stop there, which would be the only Lake County stop on the Chicago-Milwaukee route, the Lake Forester article says. The city is trying to find grant funding from state or federal agencies instead of spending local money.
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