(La Porte, IN) - La Porte Mayor Tom Dermody hopes whoever is elected to county government this year will be open to removing truck traffic from downtown.

 

Kingsbury Industrial Park will soon be serviced by two major railroads and that could attract major employers, along with more trucks hauling supplies to those companies, through downtown La Porte. Dermody urged that the time to start building new roads leading trucks to their destinations without having to go through downtown is now.

 

“Let’s do things right and let’s quit worrying about just getting reelected or not doing anything to get reelected, and let’s start putting some roads down,” he said.

 

CSX Railroad recently began moving train cars in and out of the park to service the needs of companies. CSX and Canadian National Railroad could be servicing the entire park soon because the final rail connections creating a loop for them to do so are expected to be done by the end of this month.

 

Currently, a majority of the La Porte County Commissioners are opposed to building a truck route around the downtown area so as to avoid disrupting rural areas of the county.