Massachusetts Northern Tier Rail Study

[jis]

Here is the latest version of the Massachusetts Northern Tier Rail Study...

https://trainsinthevalley.org/northern-tier-rail-study/

They are soliciting comments, so feel free to submit such as you see fit. Meanwhile we can also discuss it here.

 

[Tlcooper44]

Here is the latest version of the Massachusetts Northern Tier Rail Study...

https://trainsinthevalley.org/northern-tier-rail-study/

They are soliciting comments, so feel free to submit such as you see fit. Meanwhile we can also discuss it here.

At this point, there seems to always be a 'good' reason not to spend money and build rail.
This would be a very long, slow service, through a sparsely populated area. As far as ROI, its not exactly great.

But we build massive, expensive, urban-level density highway projects through sparsely populated places all the time.

I'd rather see more rail than less rail, and it gives people more options for travel.

Curious: Will the Greenfield stop share the station with Amtrak? Or is it an entirely separate place? What does "reconfiguration" mean in this case.