The Virginia Road Park and Ride Lot was engineered and constructed using 100% federal funding through the Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Program administered by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and the Illinois Department of Transportation. As the first Park and Ride lot in McHenry County, the Virginia Road park and Ride Lot will serve residents for years to come.It will be officially open following a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Tuesday morning.
Background Information
The purpose of the 105 space parking
lot is to offer area residents a place where they can meet up with other people
who want to car pool to areas such as the major employment centers in places
like Schaumburg and Chicago. For years, areas residents have been using
roadsides and shopping center parking lots to fulfill this need. This
parking lot offers a convenient, secure, lighted location to leave vehicles
while people are car pooling.
The park and ride lot also offers a
bike rack to accommodate those users who may want to access the park and ride
lot via the shared-use path which is planned to connect the Prairie Trail
parking lot near the Village of Algonquin Public Works facility to the existing
shared use-path in front of the Crystal Lake Wal-Mart at Illinois Route 31 and
Rakow Road. By encouraging car pooling, we can help ease congestion on
our area roadways by getting more vehicles off of the road, which in turn helps
improve air quality.
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