It's good and bad news. The good news is the opening, which lets them meet the September 30th deadline EXACTLY... strange as it is for any new rail line or segment to start on a Friday (usually it's the weekend or Monday). The bad news is the very limited service, basically one rush hour round trip in the morning and one rush hour round trip in the evening. Hopefully when service is expanded in November, there will be many more rush hour, midday, evening, and weekend choices of trains.
MBTA/Fitchburg extension to Wachusett - service starts 9/30/16
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Posted 02 October 2016 - 10:31 AM
Sentinel & Enterprise, Fitchburg, MA 9/30:
Long wait for commuter train service to West Fitchburg is over
FITCHBURG -- Retired Gardner resident Paul Suihkonen's long wait for the train ended Friday when the first Fitchburg Line cars rolled into the new Wachusett Commuter Rail Station at 7:48 a.m.
"You don't have to drive into Fitchburg. Right off the highway, boom, you're here. That's a beautiful thing," said Suihkonen, who added he has waited for "years" for the train station to finally open.
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