Wednesday, October 7, 2009

‘A lot of support’ for Amtrak route

Readers—here is a little ego thing.  I was very disappointed that there were only sixty citizens there—there must have been more than twenty officials from the various government agencies and paid consultants. 

Bill Pysson of Belvidere questioned whether there needed to be two stations in Rockford — one at South Alpine Road and one downtown. He didn’t think the downtown one would get enough use to be worth the money.
But he didn’t mind IDOT’s decision to put the route through Genoa instead of his city, since Amtrak’s study showed the Genoa route would cost less, be faster and draw more people.
“I think the facts really indicate that it’s better for all of us if it went the other way,” Pysson said

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