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Posted 20 May 2012 - 09:16 AM

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Posted 20 May 2012 - 01:47 PM

...the T, which just announced cuts to weekend service for three commuter lines but spared Middleboro’s, wants more assurances that an expansion wouldn’t worsen its fiscal problems.

Maybe that explains why they preserved weekend service on the Middleboro/Lakeville Line, but cut it on the other Old Colony Lines (Kingston/Plymouth & Greenbush). Did they have a potential Cape Cod extension in mind?


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Posted 20 May 2012 - 08:40 PM

...the T, which just announced cuts to weekend service for three commuter lines but spared Middleboro’s, wants more assurances that an expansion wouldn’t worsen its fiscal problems.

Maybe that explains why they preserved weekend service on the Middleboro/Lakeville Line, but cut it on the other Old Colony Lines (Kingston/Plymouth & Greenbush). Did they have a potential Cape Cod extension in mind?


Highly doubtful. This plan is nothing new, it's been floated around for a while but it's been a while since it has been proposed in a major newspaper. Ridership on the Middleborough/Lakeville Line is averaging about 50 to 75% more ridership(as of the year 2009) on the weekend than the other two lines.

If you remember the Amtrak Cape Codder, then you know the proposed route south of middleborough

Also note that this won't be a T operation- it's the Cape Cod Transit Authority's doing. They will have to find the money to pay for the operation that impacts the MBTA as little as possible. MBTA equipment will be used but the brains, money, and political clout will be CCTA's.

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Posted 20 May 2012 - 08:43 PM

Just wishful thinking.No projects listed on either website. The only two highway bridges to Cape Cod were built in 1933-1935. Structural maintenence is being done on one bridge during weekdays causing lane closures and resulting backups.Weekends have always had traffic backups during good weather.

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Posted 20 May 2012 - 10:01 PM

Also note that this won't be a T operation- it's the Cape Cod Transit Authority's doing. They will have to find the money to pay for the operation that impacts the MBTA as little as possible. MBTA equipment will be used but the brains, money, and political clout will be CCTA's.

So would they have to change crews in Middleborough?


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Posted 21 May 2012 - 12:30 PM

If you remember the Amtrak Cape Codder, then you know the proposed route south of middleborough.

I never rode the Cape Codder, but I know that its route left the NEC in Attleboro, MA and ran east through Taunton to a point adjacent to the Middleboro/Lakeville station (then not in use as the "T" was still years away from restoring Old Colony service). It then ran parallel to I-495 and MA-25 to Bourne, and then over the bridge onto Cape Cod - finally running parallel to MA-28 down to Hyannis.

The Cape Codder (which interestingly used Metroliner equipment) ran north on Fridays only from Washington to New York in a regular weekday Metroliner hourly slot, but then continued east of New York to New Haven, where it changed engines, and then continued up to Attleboro before branching off on the above route. The equipment made a shuttle round trip on Saturdays Hyannis to Providence and Providence to Hyannis (connecting to or from corridor trains at PVD). Then on Sundays it left Hyannis and ran to New Haven, changed to electric engine, and terminated in New York (not Washington). In its later years before extinction, it became a Boston-oriented train, though I don't recall whether it went via Attleboro or if the tracks were passable on what is now the Middleboro commuter line for it to take the more direct Old Colony route into Boston (or Braintree for Red Line transfer)

The idea for this service sounds similar in days of operation, only the through trains Friday and Sunday would run through to/from Boston, and the Saturday short turns would be at Middleboro to connect with existing commuter service.


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Posted 18 October 2016 - 05:16 PM

capecod.com  10/13/16:

 


New Plan Could Bring Commuter Rail Service to Bourne

 

 The chairman of the Joint Committee on Transportation recently discussed a plan that could eventually bring commuter rail service to Bourne.

 

At a hearing last month on the South Coast Rail Project in Bourne, State Rep William Straus (D-Mattapoisett) talked about a possible idea to build a new station in Middleborough that would connect train service from Fall River and New Bedford with service from Buzzards Bay or Wareham.

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Posted 05 May 2017 - 12:34 AM

Wareham Week, 5/2/17:

 


 

Selectmen support bringing commuter rail to Wareham

 

Selectmen are on board with a Massachusetts Department of Transportation plan that makes a commuter stop in Wareham a possibility. However, Selectman Alan Slavin cautioned that the $1 billion project is complicated and reaching a consensus among stakeholders is a tricky proposition.

 

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Posted 16 February 2018 - 05:17 PM

Cape Cod Times, 2/15/18:

 


Cape officials see progress in state commuter rail filing

 

 

The possibility of a commuter rail service between Cape Cod and Boston has long been considered unlikely, but state and local officials are encouraged by a recent filing by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that reports the South Coast Rail project could be ready to roll by 2022, and that nothing precludes a Cape service tie-in.

 

 

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