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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

La Grange Train Station Now Open after December Crash

After a month of the ticket office being closed since a van drove through the station wall, the station finally reopened this week.

One month after a van drove through the wall of the La Grange Road Metra train station, the station and office are now open for business again, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the paper, the damage to the station has not been fully repaired by Metra, who say they have no timetable for completing a permanent fix, but what has been done is sufficient to reopen the waiting room and the ticket-agent office. "I had to take the train last week, and I'm not a regular user, so I couldn't buy a ticket," La Grange resident John Matthews told the paper. "You could buy it on a train but then you have to pay more." (A Metra spokesman told the paper that in circumstances where ticket agents could not be available during ordinary times, extra …

Thursday, December 20, 2012

UPDATED: Minivan Crashes Through La Grange Train Station Wall

One person was transported to La Grange Adventist with minor injuries; the van has now been successfully removed from the wall of the station.

UPDATED, 8:28 p.m.: Crews have successfully removed the silver Chrysler Town and Country minivan from the wall of the La Grange (Road) train station at 25 W. Burlington Avenue where it was embedded after a crash at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. A spokesman for Metra, Tom Miller, confirmed that an 82-year-old Michigan woman had accidentally backed the vehicle into the station when she hit the gas by mistake. The woman was uninjured; one person inside the station was transported to Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. “We’re still assessing any damage to the station itself,” Miller said. He added that train service will not be affected, but could not say when the station will reopen or how repairs will proceed.  Crews …

Janet Barrett

1:52 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012

What I cringe about is when someone uses the diagonal spaces to drop someone off in the early morning commuter rush, decides that is just the place to do a three-point turn with their minivan, to go back west on Burlington, rather than go to the stoplight, make a right-hand turn on La Grange Rd., and simply go around the block - 5 min.?   more ›

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