Culver Town Council members have scheduled a work session for Tuesday, August 12th. The meeting has been called to discuss a high speed rail project.
The proposed high-speed rail project would run 110 m.p.h. and starts in Chicago and goes through Gary, Valparaiso, Plymouth, Warsaw, Fort Wayne, Lima, Ohio and a couple other communities in Ohio before getting to Columbus.
High speed rail committee members have discussed potential users and the economic impact the high speed rail will have. There are several Fortune 500 companies within a short distance of a stop on the route. There are also 141 institutions of higher education within 25 miles of the rail heads along the route.
At a meeting in Plymouth earilier this year is was noted that Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio are well ahead of Indiana in this process and now is the time to make Indiana, especially northeast Indiana a leader in passenger rail development.
The high speed rail would use existing railroad right-of-way using the old Pennsylvania Rail line which runs right through downtown Plymouth. The association projects 10 trains daily going each direction for a total of 20 trains. It is anticipated that half of those trains would stop in Plymouth daily.
The Northeast Indiana Passenger Rail Association projects 2 million passengers a year will use the rail system.
The Culver meeting on Tuesday will be in the town hall at 5 p.m.
