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Advocates Say The BRAIN TRAIN Act Could Transform Massachusetts. Will It Pass?
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What if you could get from Worcester to Boston quickly? What if you could get all the way across the state in under two hours and not drive? That s what s on the minds of some Massachusetts representatives in Congress.
Sen. Ed Markey, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jim McGovern re-introduced their BRAIN TRAIN Act this week, with the goal of building a passenger rail service that would connect local economies with larger cities and help curb commuters carbon footprint in the process. Is there enough political support to build it? Chris Dempsey of Transportation for Mass. and Karen Christensen of the Western Massachusetts Rail Coalition joined Adam Reilly on
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WORCESTER â Federal lawmakers from Massachusetts have reintroduced legislation to expand investments in passenger rail, which they say would give Western Massachusetts communities a needed boost.
Karen Christensen, a rail advocate who lives in Great Barrington, joined U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Malden, and U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Worcester, for a Wednesday news conference at Union Station in Worcester. The lawmakers announced the reintroduction of the Building Rail Across Intercity Networks to Ride Around Interior of the Nation (Brain Train) Act, which Markey first introduced last May with U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield.
âThis is our moment, our chance to make generational investments in our common future,â said Christensen, who founded the nonprofit Barrington Institute and the âTrain Timeâ podcast. âThere is no justification for leaving parts of the United States behind: 21st-century connectivity can give every citizen â in cities and subur
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