[GeoffD]

Jeez. The Amtrak Northeast Corridor and Acela trains through Connecticut are already pathetically slow due to the horrible track infrastructure. You want to slow down the Boston-NYP ride even more by adding local stops in Connecticut? NFW.

[skeddy]

Amtrak owns and operates 363 miles of the 457-mile NEC spine connecting Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston. That means they can't do what they want wherever they want.

[mdovell]

One of the biggest differences between public and private transit is private transit has destinations, public transit has routes. A private bus system can take detours to go to A to B. Rail can't. Then again rail has right of way.

Expanding rail takes time. Between takings, easements, traffic studies, ridership studies, federal and procurement laws and not to forget union regs. Anyway there's another in land route that pretty much is going to happen.

By 2035 worcester to springfield will be done along with the double tracking and other stations on the hartford line.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/0...-proposal.html

The missing link connecting Boston to NYC pretty much has been the track between springfield and worcester. CSX owns it. Well CSX wants to buy out Pan Am Raillines to get some commercial routes into franklin county. Well as a stipulation of approval they'll probably ask for improvements and sharing of the line between springfield and worcester.

At this point union station is done in springfield, development is all along the route down to new haven, the double line is on the way so yes this is happening. Opposition by peter pan is muted at this point.

At the same point eventually Bradley airport is going to have another runway (maybe in the same time period as above) and new havens airport is finally getting more development.