Park Ridge COW Suggest Parking Study Contract

PARK RIDGE, IL - Parking has become a major concern in Uptown Park Ridge and commuters have been struggling to find alternatives. The Park Ridge City Council’s finance committee of the whole last week suggested a contract for a parking study that serves the area around the Uptown Metra station.

The contract, led by Vernon Hills-based Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc., would take a look at whether there is enough parking to accommodate its residents, businesses and Metra commuters.

The Bugle reports:

The study would look at all of the parking that serves the Uptown Metra station, as well as the area north of the tracks between Morris Street, Northwest Highway, Touhy Avenue and Washington Avenue, as well as the area south of the tracks between Touhy Avenue, Third Street, Crescent Avenue, the outer edges of the city hall parking lots and Vine Avenue.

Parking has become a major concern in Uptown Park Ridge. New businesses are straining the existing capacity and things also got tighter for commuters who live south of the Metra tracks. Until last fall, AT&T leased spaces at its parking lot on 36 S. Fairview Ave. As of Oct. 1, 2015, the company stopped leasing out parking because it wanted to use the parking spaces for its own employees.