Dearborn holds open house for commuter rail station next week

You know something is getting close to reality when public information meetings are scheduled. Such is the case for the proposed Detroit-Ann Arbor Commuter Rail Line.

Dearborn is holding an open house about its proposed station for the line on Tuesday evening. City officials expect the intermodal station to help spur investment around it and make the city a destination for tourists, shoppers and workers.

The station is proposed to go in at Michigan Avenue and Elm Street. It will be set up like a park-and-ride, yet is designed as pedestrian friendly to those visiting the adjacent Henry Ford museums, nearby west downtown and the Rouge Parkway. Buses and taxis will be available to take passengers to the nearby Fairlane Towne Center and the campuses of the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Henry Ford Community College.

The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) is heading up the commuter rail project and is working out details with a number of train companies that control the tracks between Ann Arbor and Detroit. A video of the proposed line, set to come on line in 2010, is available here.

The meeting will be held between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, 15801 Michigan Avenue. A 45-minute presentation will begin at 5 p.m.

Source: Randy Coble, spokesman for the city of Dearborn
Writer: Jon Zemke

Dearborn holds open house for commuter rail station next week

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