CRail wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:24 am
The path for the service is not important. NH needs to pay for the cost associated with getting service TO their stop. As far as the infrastructure goes, it's T property up to state line, track upgrades to that point are the responsibility of MA. The T doesn't need to study track upgrades. Economic, environmental, and feasibility studies (all of which I think are ridiculous) are NH's to do.
Commuter rail in NH has been studied, studied and studied.. A few years back, NH, through a Federal Grant that was at no cost to the NH Taxpayer, studied what it would take to build, operate, who would ride it, and how much would it all cost. I believe the NH legislature put an end to future commuter rail studies. At the present time, The NH State Gov't, seems to have zero interest in putting up the state's portion of the federal funding to build it, maintain it, and pay the MBTA operate the service. Granite Staters will have suffer in traffic to Boston for the foreseeable future.