Metra Fare Hike: Public Hearing Scheduled in Clarendon Hills

Clarendon Hills Village Hall will be one of nine sites for public hearings held by Metra’s board of directors regarding the train company’s possible fare hike.

Metra’s board of directors approved a tentative 2017 budget plan last Friday that would increase fares by an average of 5.8 percent. The extra money, the company said, will go toward new train cars and locomotives.

If approved, the fare increase will take effect in February.

An alternative plan was considered by the board which would only hike fares by 4.8 percent, but either way, if the board had left rates as they are, fares were still scheduled to jump by 8.5 percent over the next decade.

The proposed budget totals a little more than a billion dollars and will be presented to the public in a series of hearings Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, WBEZ Chicago reported. The board’s final vote will take place Nov. 11.

The public hearing in Clarendon Hills will take place in the village board room at Village Hall, 1 N. Prospect Ave. It is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and last until 7 p.m.

Other hearing locations are listed here. More information about the Metra fare hike can be found here.

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