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Planners promise 10-to-1 payback with $6.4B to $9.4B Hartford-Springfield-Boston rail proposal Updated May 06, 2021; Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield/Hartford area has missed out on 130,000 new jobs since 1990, jobs that could have come here if the region had the commuter rail service enjoyed by other East Coast cities. “That’s the major differentiating factor, the availability of rail,” said Jessica Jones, senior analyst for the engineering firm AECOM. Improving rail service from New York City to Boston through Hartford, Springfield and Worcester could cost $6.4 billion ...
WORCESTER — A public investment in intercity, particularly railroads connecting Western Massachusetts with Central and Eastern Massachusetts, can help local economies develop and curb the nation's carbon footprint, U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey said. "We have become a box-office smash as a state, as a destination economically for people not only across our country but across the world," Markey said. "We want to continue to make this a welcoming place and rail is an essential part of that planning." Markey and U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-Worcester, announced the reintroduction of the...
Lamont: A few giant infrastructure projects beat lots of small ones Julia Bergman FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh.Evan Vucci/APShow MoreShow Less 2of9FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2018, file photo, water contaminated with arsenic, lead and zinc flows from a pipe out of the Lee Mountain mine and into a holding pond near Rimini, Mont. President Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old o...
This week, we take a look into the future of Connecticut’s capital city. And not a science fiction look, 100 years out, but something a bit more manageable. It’s a plan to re-route highways that have cut off parts of the city from each other, and from the river that gives Connecticut its name. It’s a plan to knit together smaller projects with big, national efforts, like an expansion of high-speed rail in the Northeast, with a hope of attracting more people to the region, and making life better for those who live here. The project is called Hartford 400 – named for the city’s upcomi...