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Boston to Manhattan by train in 100 minutes?
It’s possible, so say the organizers of the North Atlantic Rail Initiative, who are now seeking to drum up support from the Biden Administration, as it works to sell its $2 trillion infrastructure package to the country.
The $105 billion high-speed rail project would take about 20 years to complete, but, when finished, would link Boston, Providence, Hartford, and New Haven to Penn Station, via a tunnel under the Long Island Sound,
Newsday reports. Other stops would include stations in Connecticut, on Long Island, and in Queens, New York.
At a speed that would reach up to 200 miles per hour, the trip between NYC and Boston would be as quick as 1 hour and 40 minutes roughly 33 percent faster than Amtrak’s Acela trains that travel the system’s Northeast corridor. ....

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