Amtrak proposes new service through Worcester
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Union Station in Worcester.
Amtrak is proposing an ambitious expansion of its rail network across the country as part of President Joe Biden's infrastructure goals, including increased service through Worcester.
Amtrak didn't release additional details but highlighted in its national plan on Wednesday new rail service along an existing route running from Boston through Worcester to Springfield and Albany. Today, those cities form the easternmost part of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited route whose western end is in Chicago.
Wednesday's announcement from Amtrak accompanied Biden's $2-trillion infrastructure plan, including $80 billion for rail, a soft spot for a president known for regularly taking Amtrak between Washington, D.C. and his home in Delaware in his decades in the Senate. The plan, Amtrak said, would bring new and better train service to millions of new passengers.
Amtrak also proposed enhanced service along Amtrak's Boston-to-New York line, which runs through Providence and cities along Connecticut's shore. Dozens of bridges, stations and tunnels along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line, which includes the Boston-to-New York stretch and continues through to Washington, D.C. are in need of immediate replacement or repair, Amtrak said.
Elsewhere in New England, Amtrak enhanced service is proposed along a line roughly tracing I-91 between Hartford, Springfield and into Vermont, as well as expanding service from Boston to Rockland, Maine, and from Boston to Manchester and Concord, N.H.
Today, Worcester is connected to Boston through as many as 10 trains a day, slightly fewer than before the coronavirus pandemic. The Lake Shore Limited runs westward from Boston, stopping in Framingham and Worcester, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. It runs in the other direction on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
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