https://clarendonhills.us/407/Downtown-Revitalization
Now I realize that an 80yo bachelor who has lived here for now 42 years "really doesn't want change" as much as would a young family, but this is "just too much".
Sure, the former station needed a little paint and some TLC, but it was just fine for the monthly pass rider who showed up five minutes before train time, and simply stood on the platform. Now they go and build this, and honestly, who cares. Yes, they got Federal $$$, but they also got MY $$$ (there's a line item on my Real Estate tax bill).
Now the latest; and not being "advertised" by the Village. While the Eastward station appears complete, the Westward "shed" is a different story. They got as far as setting up the fabricated beams for such (and to support the vegetation they will plant on the roof - apparently the "environmental thing"), but suddenly, they TAKE THOSE BEAMS DOWN. Go to Village Hall and you get "here's the Public Information Officer's card". At one business in town I use, the word is that "they messed up the fabrication so they have to do it all over again".
What a needless disruption!!!!
Again regarding their "Burlington Plaza" (which will tie up sidewalks I regularly use) to be located on a vacant lot owned by the Village on the Northwest corner of Prospect and Burlington, they'd better have good fencing around it. I just can't see little kids playing that close to the tracks - even if there are some "junior railfans" amongst them. That has the potential to become "expensive".
Here endeth the Rant.