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I think some of those statistics are a bit misleading. Much of the eastern outskirts of Manchester are very low-density or even undeveloped land, especially around Massabesic Lake. The land area of the city is much bigger than Lowell or Lawrence, but the population is heavily concentrated in the...

But the only way that the Capitol Corridor is going to happen is if New Hampshire funds it--it's not going to happen if New Hampshire tries to "leech off" Massachusetts. And because of that--and perhaps unlike some in-state commuter rail projects like Greenbush--I don't think it's going to take...

Also very good. And I like that you got rid of the superfluous "L" in Lloyd--it's about time we streamline that name!

Haha. Good impression, and even better point.

It's worth noting that in New Hampshire, one of the many states mentioned by whighlander that went Republican last year, the Speaker of the House is William O'Brien, former law partner of Tom Finneran at Finneran, Byrne, Drechsler & O'Brien. With New Hampshire's excessively large state house...

Because some of us are from NH, and the current mess up there aside, care about the place. This is the attitude that ends up killing the state--people (residents, former residents, non-residents alike) watching the O'Brien circus, and throwing their hands up in defeat. Massachusetts, as a state...

I'm not sure exactly what your point is, but today. I live in Cambridge and work in Newton. I see cars with NH plates in both places almost everyday. And the reason the study is to be funded by FTA and FRA is because it's a study of commuter rail and the high-speed rail corridor.

Kevin Landrigan wrote another update on the commuter rail study situation in Sunday's Nashua Telegraph:

I agree. That building would be great on an empty lot or in place of an old strip mall. But on quirky Thayer Street, it looks sterile and certainly is out-of-scale. I've only been to Thayer Street once, but it's very urban and bustling even though it's lined with mostly one- and two-story...

Just saw a couple things regarding I-93 and the highway bill that passed in the Senate yesterday: Of course, accepting federal money for commuter buses (most of which, I believe, are owned by the state of New Hampshire, but privately operated) is okay, but commuter rail is socialism or some...

I think Manchester does justify. I-93 is a direct connection, but even with the highway upgrades going on now, it's going to take a lot longer than an hour to drive between Manchester and Boston. And I-93 completely misses Nashua and Manchester Airport. Anecdotally, I think the commuter rail...

I completely agree, and Manchester, like Providence, is right at the edge of that one-hour ride. I believe the idea (which will be fleshed out if someone is able to accept the study in place of the state), would be to run trains express from the New Hampshire stations to North Station, with...

whighlander -- it sounds like either you are drinking Ron Paul's Koolaide or you are preparing it HenryAlan said: Exactly right. I think the principled stand mentioned is exactly the wrong thing stand to take, but you're right that whether you agree or not, in this case it's meaningless. This...

Thanks for finding that. I have no idea what the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority is, but I'll assume they mean the Mass Bay TA. Here's the section of the column that F-Line was referring to: And just to add to the argument against the idea that NH should not accept the funds on...

But where do you think the majority of the money for the extension of T service to Providence, or the Downeaster comes from? It is federal funds that pay a bulk of commuter rail and Amtrak services, not to mention highway construction. We have things like the federal fuel taxes so that each...

This is how studies are done for infrastructure projects all over the country. As I mentioned earlier, only a few states receive less federal spending per dollar they send to the federal government than New Hampshire. This study, like every other federally funded study, is an instance of the...

Where do you get the idea that the towns around Manchester and Nashua are all just a few thousand people? It's entirely--and as I'm beginning to expect, unsurprisingly--inaccurate. The first four cities in towns along the Capitol Corridor in New Hampshire are Nashua, Merrimack, Bedford and...

I totally agree, and especially like the "one-trick-pony" part. I've been saying this for awhile, but New Hampshire cannot have a sustainable economy built on gimmicks--fireworks store lining the borders, liquor stores on the highway, souther suburbs full of tax-dodging commuters who still spend...

Facts are stubborn things. Which is why I am using them. According to the Census Bureau, New Hampshire has an urban population of 819,087. This includes all people living in what the Bureau calls Presumably about half of the urbanized population lives in the Manchester-Nashua metro area, which...

Why even bother? Because despite the Executive Council vote, people there want this. By an overwhelming majority. And because I don't want to see my home state and the city where I grew up left behind in large part because of newcomer tax dodgers moving in and shifting policies to protect their...