Posted Feb 23, 2016, 7:02 PM
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North-South Rail Link gets another look
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For a long time after 2003, the North-South Rail Link seemed dead. That’s when Governor Mitt Romney killed it, the price topping $8 billion.
But now after heavy lobbying from two former governors, Mike Dukakis and Bill Weld, and a star-studded support group that includes Congressman Seth Moulton – the state transportation department will spend up to $2 million on a study.That’s peanuts for a project of this complexity – building a mile-long underground tunnel to connect North and South stations – but Dukakis will take it.
“That’s all we are looking for. A lot of work has been done on this,” said the former governor referring to previous analysis the state has undertaken.
Dukakis figures a follow up study can be done in six months and that should “give a good sense” of whether the link is viable.
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Hopefully this actually goes somewhere and doesn't just end up dying again.
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