Meetings to Focus on Proposed Rail Corridor
(Graphic provided by the Northeast Indiana Passenger Rail Association.)
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA slate of public meetings next week will focus on recent efforts and remaining steps to secure funding for a proposed passenger rail line between Chicago, Fort Wayne and Columbus, Ohio. The first will be in Lima, Ohio, while the latter three will be in Indiana — Fort Wayne, Warsaw and Valparaiso.
Organized by the Northern Indiana Passenger Rail Association, the meetings will include presentations from Missouri-based consultant HNTB Corp. The firm has been hired to develop a federally-required analysis of the project that is part of the federal funding process.
Plans for the proposed Chicago-Fort Wayne-Columbus corridor call for a passenger rail connection that could reach some 100 Midwest cities through a regional rail network. The trains would initially travel up to nearly 80 miles per-hour and potentially increased to a 110 miles per-hour top speed.
HNTB, NIPRA and the Federal Railroad Administration have collaborated on the development of:
- a Purpose and Need Statement
- a Public Involvement Plan
- an analysis of the route options
- service alternatives along the preferred route
- preliminary engineering to develop high-level cost estimates based on the chosen service alternatives
The meetings and locations include:
- Tuesday, October 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Lima Municipal Center in Lima, Ohio
- Wednesday, October 24, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Allen County Public Library at 900 Library Plaza in Fort Wayne
- Wednesday, October 24, 5:00-7:00 p.m., City Hall in Warsaw
- Thursday, October 25, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce building in Valparaiso
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