The Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing in Worcester to discuss the state of the state’s rail system this Tuesday.
The hearing on the 2016 State Rail Plan Update seeks to document the current state of the rail system in Massachusetts, identify planned improvements and outline the state’s 20-year plan for the rail system, including both passenger and freight rail.
According to MassDOT, there are 2.6 million trips per year on Amtrak in Massachusetts, and almost 40 million trips are taken on the MBTA’s commuter rail system each year. Additionally, almost 400,000 carloads of freight weighing 15 million tons were moved by rail in Massachusetts in 2012, MassDOT said.
The hearing will be held Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Union Station.
