The MBTA is reviving train service from Boston to Fall River and New Bedford, but a series of cost-saving decisions will lead to slower, less frequent service than commuters were initially promised.
The journey from New Bedford to Boston is long and expensive for anyone unable or unwilling to make the 60 mile drive north by car.
South Coast Rail will restore commuter rail service to Fall River and New Bedford for the first time since 1959. “I’d love to be wrong on this, but I think it will be sort of obsolete as it opens up,” said Marc Pacheco, a longtime state senator from Taunton who said he’s been working toward the restoration of train service since the 1980s.
Much of the criticism aimed at South Coast Rail is focused on the path the train is taking to Boston. State transportation planners shifted the project onto “Imagine you have the world's narrowest hallway where only one person can fit down it,” Johnson said. “And imagine that hallway is nine miles long.”
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