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The RTA's been talkin' about extending it down here..
until Columbus Day for few years,but it's
been all talk

Who's going to pay for it? NH doesn't have a personal income tax, so if the Commuter Rail is taking people to their jobs in Boston then Massachusetts should pay for the subsidy. NH won't pay for it, which is why it's unlikely to happen. That's the whole point..Ya' gotta' pay to play.. I live on Cap...

[quote="Red Wing" post_id=1591585 time=1644587099 user_id=4645] [quote=MickD post_id=1591484 time=1644455806 user_id=53] I live on The Cape,and unless you could get ALL the towns in on an upgrade to 79MPH from HTC the investment's not worth it..P&B & Peter Pan,will be too tough to ...

And it'll take at least 3 years to support more
than 2-3 trains a day, but those 2 -3 trains from BB
I believe would prove to be worthwhile long term...

The current Middleborough station is nothing more than a canopy & a platform,with nothing else to maintain... So where's the conflict of 2 stations,one for SCL and one for BB service ??..If not for bureaucracy ,which granted, is part and parcel ,commuter rail could be in place & ready to go ...

[quote=CRail post_id=1590984 time=1643861861 user_id=1975] Buzzards Bay is not on Cape Cod, and service to it is not related to the further plans ONTO the Cape correlating to SCR Phase 2. Service to Bourne and beyond is not what I'm talking about. [/quote] Buzzards Bay is indeed part of The Cape..It...

Personally, as a resident of Massachusetts, as much I'd love to be able to train up to Concord when I was able,there's no way this should be considered without funding input from New Hampshire.. It's that much more beneficial to that state than ours.. The folks that Have to commute to Boston from ov...

There may be money for planning & construction
but still begs the big question of operational subsidy
and service provider...

[quote=MickD post_id=1583788 time=1635614431 user_id=53] I can tell you why from experience.. My hometown is Glen Rock,NJ..It has a stations on both the Bergen County lines of the the old Erie Lackawanna,now NJ Transit.. I currently live on Cape Cod and I enjoy the train ride down from Boston..I go ...

I can tell you why from experience.. My hometown is Glen Rock,NJ..It has a stations on both the Bergen County lines of the the old Erie Lackawanna(Erie) Main Line,now NJ Transit.. I currently live on Cape Cod and I enjoy the train ride down from Boston..I go back to Glen Rock often..Still love it et...

[quote=electricron post_id=1583772 time=1635600877 user_id=23592] Why? :( NYC's Penn Station is 5 miles to it's east and Newark's Penn Station is 5 miles to its west. Does Amtrak need to provide station services along the NEC every 5 miles? If you answered that question with a yes, where are you goi...

What would have made sense ,too much so,but, is irreconcilable now, was an extension of Newark City Subway from both Grove Street and Branch Brook with a connecting bridge over Franklin Ave,to Secaucus when Boonton Line commuter rail was realigned through Bay Street..and Xanadu was in it's early sta...

Dumber than dumb.. Why not take those same state funds and Finally extend HBLR to Englewood..?? How much patronage would this really get ?? Probably nothing close to justify the cost of construction.Why not run an hourly, mid morning, to say 10 pm, rail shuttle along what's already in place from Sec...

[quote=Douglasphil post_id=1569802 time=1619547518 user_id=284327] That whole Boston waterfront area is not freight friendly, Amtrak and Keolis don't always play well with others. The Dorchester Branch has a 10 mph limit for freight and limited to plate c. When CSX still served the Cold Storage plac...

Not bad ..Just a few minutes late into
Buzzards Bay tonight..