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Emer Notes:Better North Station-South Station Connection Is NecessaryI t is very hard to go from North Station to South Station in Boston by public transportation. Since the Acton line runs to North Station I need to go on 2 subways lines to get from North Station to South Station. It will become even more important to have a good North-South Station connection when the Amtrak Boston to Portland, Maine service starts. It is supposed to start some service in January and have the whole thing running by April of next year. The service will run out of North Station. If they don’t make a good connection it would be hard to go between Portland and New York because all other Amtrak trains run out of South Station.The latest idea to remedy this is to build a monorail. The MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) will study the idea. I think that a monorail would be good for people who needed to take the train from Portland to Boston and then on to a different Amtrak location. The monorail also could be good for people who want to go from the commuter rail to an Amtrak connection. It would be a pain to lug all your bags on and off the monorail and carry them around North and South Station. Therefore, a rail connection is needed. Some of the information for this article came from Trains Magazine’s website. Click here to go back to Volume 4a Edition 5's web-site.
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