Welcome to Connecticut! Based on how they've been handling the Amtrak Springfield line upgrade, I bet a lot of that money would be for BS environmental impact studies and other pre-build stuff like that.
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“Apparently they took all the railroad ties, either new ones or the ones that have been torn out over the years, and they piled them all up about 600 feet into the tunnel. Then somebody had to have lit them on fire,” Sekorski.Unfortunately not a rare event here. Miscreants have long targeted the tunnel for crap like this, and inevitably Plymouth and Bristol FD get called down once every couple of years to knock out somebody's small bonfire.
It was “absolutely” deliberate, he added. “It must have been burning for a while, probably in the wee hours of the morning. We had to stretch about 800 feet of hose down the cliffs and then into the tunnel.”
Plainvilletrainbuff wrote:I guess traffic has really increased to the point where there is a need for night trains through Bristol. Residents don't appear to be happy about it. Does anyone know if the night trains are still considered PL-1Oh, those poor fragile flowers. And to think it was not 22 years ago I used to go to sleep with the soothing sound of horns-by-night on the Canal Line from a half-mile up the hill of Town Line Rd. This is pretty weak sauce even by NIMBY standards. The oldest and longest-tenured population swaths in the whole city are downtown and in Forestville closest to the tracks; the new sprawly McMansion subdivisions and gentrification are miles out in the hills. It's like a time warp every time I go back home to visit and drive up Main St. These very same people complaining are the ones who were still living in those same exact houses the last time business on the PL-#'s was good enough to run more than half the days of the week at more than one time slot. These same homebodies have been there from the same backyards through the whole alpha and omega of Big G on the Highland.
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