by markhb
You should be able to find them at the local Whole Foods...Actually, I think they're the ones locking $3000 bicycles to the chain-link fence which they then have to hop over to get from the Bayside Trail to Trader Joe's I'd love to see your analysis of the various political groups in play around this stuff.
There's a Powerpoint deck (translated to PDF) on the ATRC site dated yesterday; I am not sure whether it was for the Auburn or Bethel meeting (or both), but it has a lot of interesting info. A few things I noticed:
- They seem to be fine with having the L/A train station at the airport and using a shuttle bus to connect to the downtowns;
- The route (PAR or SLR) between Royal Junction and Auburn (or at least Danville) is considered TBD.
- There is some mention of the Downeaster layover facility being moved to Brunswick, which surprised me.
- The Montreal service they discuss would make 2 station stops in New Hampshire but none in Vermont.
- There is also discussion of additional Downeaster trips to Boston, but no mention that if they add more than 1 more round trip PAR will have to revisit their PTC waiver since that's predicated on no more than 12 one-way pax trips/day.
- At no point in the deck is the "$" character used
"Tony Donovan, a member of the Maine Rail Coalition, suggested using VIA Rail rather than Amtrak."
If anyone can tell me why VIA Rail would be interested in running a service from Montreal to Maine, or why PAR would let them run on its tracks, please let me know.
Personally, I believe the only way we will see a POR-MTR service is if it's part of a BON-MTR route. The real question to me around that is, is BON-MTR actually desired in and of itself, or is it just a Trojan horse to get the feds to pay to restore the 50 mile gap of track in NH?
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