Having finished the first of its two major construction projects, the South Shore Line’s management now is working to see that its trains run on time.
The newly finished Miller Station on the South Shore Line Double Track NWI Project at the ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, May 13, 2024. But implementing the new schedule has been “challenging,” South Shore Line President Michael Noland acknowledged at Monday’s Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District board meeting.
But with 14 more weekday trains than the previous schedule, the new one has less leeway to make up for unexpected delays on the route. NICTD board member Jon Costas, the Valparaiso mayor, noted from his experience of opening a restaurant that the first days can be tough. Starting around mid-June, Noland said, trains will run on one set of tracks instead of two in north Hammond for about five weeks while workers realign the tracks between the current Hammond station and the new Hammond Gateway station to the west.The Gateway station will serve both the current South Shore Line trains and the trains on the West Lake Corridor, the rail line being built between Hammond and the Munster/Dyer border with stops also in south Hammond and Munster.
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