The Metra Board of Directors today approved an $585,000 amendment to the agency’s 2015 capital program to fund design for a rehabilitation of the Homewood Station on the Metra Electric Line.
The funding includes a $468,000 grant from the federal Surface Transportation Program, which was secured by Homewood through the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association, and $117,000 in matching funds from the south suburban village…Please click here to read a news release issued by Metra on Aug. 26, 2015. A related story is here in the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle, and a Tribune/Daily Southtown follow-up is here.