An Oxford resident has collected more than 1,000 signatures in support of establishing an Amtrak station in that southwest Ohio community.
Many of those who signed Deb Clark’s petitions also said they would be willing to provide funds or materials to make the station happen, she said.
The city of Oxford is supporting the bid to create a station to serve Amtrak’s tri-weekly Chicago-New York Cardinal, but G. Alan Kyger, Oxford’s development director, said a search committee has not decided on a site.
He did say that the committee is looking at locations on public land, although a privately-owned site would not be ruled out.
The committee has examined five or six potential sites, including between High Street and the former Talawanda High School site on Locust Street.
City officials have declined to divulge the specific locations because they have not spoken with the property owners.
“The eventual decision-makers are going to be city council and Miami University,” Kyger said. “We’re trying to work together on this project.”
Kyger said the search committee intends to make a location recommendation by the end of the summer.
Amtrak gave Oxford and Miami the go-ahead to select a site earlier this year.
The railroad has expressed a willing to serve Oxford, but the city and the university would have to find the site and to pay for it.
The station is expected to be a shelter station with overhead canopies but no amenities such as restrooms.
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