EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) – East-West passenger rail advocate Eric Lesser says there are too many compelling financial and environmental causes for high-speed service from Boston via western Massachusetts.
The State Senator from Longmeadow describes Thursday’s advisory committee report in Springfield as simply the primary inning. Simply getting the service off the bottom is predicted to run into billions of .
The State Senator from Longmeadow instructed 22Information Friday, the projected value doesn’t inform the entire story.
“The brand new jobs that shall be created, the brand new companies which might be going to return, the brand new folks that may keep and never have to go away as a result of they will’t discover good work, and that is the only largest environmental mission within the historical past of our state.”
State Senator Eric Lesser
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One situation that continues to be undisputed each in the course of the advisory panel’s dialogue in Springfield earlier this week and Friday’s interview with the State Senator is that East-West high-speed rail service in Massachusetts remains to be years away.