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    Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail (South Coast Rail)

    It's worth recalling that RI also split its intrastate rail rollout into two phases, not too dissimilar from SCR. Phase 1 was TF Green and Wickford Junction; Phase 2 was the rest of the extension to Kingston and Westerly, plus infills at East Greenwich, West Davisville, Cranston, etc. Once it...
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    Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail (South Coast Rail)

    I agree that they'll need to take another bite at the EIS/EIR apple, but it's hard to see SCR Phase I creating the political impetus to do so. This is a project that depended in large part on geographic equity to push it ahead of other projects with much sounder fundamentals. Phase I will...
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    Reasonable Transit Pitches

    First time posting here, but I’m familiar with the RI intrastate rail/”295 belt” service concept. The big question in my mind is whether RIDOT ended up creating a chokepoint between Pawtucket and Providence that now precludes establishing a statewide (or Providence-centric) rail service. In an...

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