Not to quibble but the northern tier rail folks, aka panamland today, have been fighting for human dignity not to mention buckaroonies with the southern tier folks in the commonwealth since the 1850's. and its the same deal 170 year later we want equal rights for transportation to and from the hub and the great beyond maybe including chicago.
we folks on the northern tier have no east west four lane highways, we have no bus company offering hourly service, and we have no passenger rails service to boston. springfield already has all that stuff and more. among other things, 60 million dollars for one lousy railroad station with virtually no passengers. certainly springfield and worcester have much much bigger populations than athol and greenfield, but they also have the infrastructure in place to move all those folks around.
the effort to make a regional rail mecca out of springfield is goina take a long time. too many constraints expensive constraints in framingham and south station to be resolved before that grand scheme has any chance of moving forward.
north station on the other hand is a great passenger logistics center with numerous easy need to go to places like mass general hospital and the gahden. all within walking distance. not to mention the fact that rail service to north station offers many things that south station just can not offer like direct rail access to cambridge, the north shore, and lobsterville.
we are not disputing springfields quest to be the east west rail mecca. in the final analysis, all the northern tier people are really pushing for is a little transport parity with our southern neighbors who already are sitting pretty .
we folks on the northern tier have no east west four lane highways, we have no bus company offering hourly service, and we have no passenger rails service to boston. springfield already has all that stuff and more. among other things, 60 million dollars for one lousy railroad station with virtually no passengers. certainly springfield and worcester have much much bigger populations than athol and greenfield, but they also have the infrastructure in place to move all those folks around.
the effort to make a regional rail mecca out of springfield is goina take a long time. too many constraints expensive constraints in framingham and south station to be resolved before that grand scheme has any chance of moving forward.
north station on the other hand is a great passenger logistics center with numerous easy need to go to places like mass general hospital and the gahden. all within walking distance. not to mention the fact that rail service to north station offers many things that south station just can not offer like direct rail access to cambridge, the north shore, and lobsterville.
we are not disputing springfields quest to be the east west rail mecca. in the final analysis, all the northern tier people are really pushing for is a little transport parity with our southern neighbors who already are sitting pretty .