Citizens for a Palmer Rail Stop
We are citizens of Palmer, Massachusetts and surrounding towns who support the restoration of passenger rail service to our historic downtown.
In April the Massachusetts House of Representatives eliminated Gov. Healey’s proposed $12.5 million for East-West rail from its budget. Instead the House Budget includes the following: $100 million for MBTA bridge work; $100 million for MBTA station improvements; $39 million for MBTA subway track and signal work; $11 million for design of the red-blue connector. […]
Please call and ask your state representative to co-sponsor and support Amendment #688 to H.3900, which would reinstate the Governor’s proposed $12.5 million for Palmer and Pittsfield Rail Projects in the FY24 budget. If they are listed as sponsors, co-sponsors, or supporters below, please call and thank them. Contact info: Find My Legislator The Palmer […]
We are thrilled and grateful that Governor Healey has proposed $4 million to prioritize a Palmer Station rail project in her FY2024 budget, demonstrating that her administration understands the value of trains stopping in Palmer and serving residents of the 21 towns of the Lower Quabbin Region. This would be a suburban station, attracting riders […]
We can’t help but take a victory lap now that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has finally decided to design and build East-West passenger rail and revive train service on the Inland Route between Worcester and Springfield. The money tells the story: Last August [2022] the state legislature passed, and Governor Baker later signed, a transportation […]
We were middle-aged and lifelong residents of the Boston area when we moved to the Pioneer Valley in 2002 in search of more affordable housing. The smaller towns and cities in Central and Western Massachusetts have long attracted people like us with their abundance of reasonably-priced homes and a less hectic lifestyle. What’s missing from […]
Connecticut’s Capitol Region Council of Governments has released a study detailing the enormous economic benefit of revitalizing the Metro Hartford-Springfield passenger rail corridor between New York City and Boston. “The proposed [Inland Route] rail improvements would bring 20,000 to 40,000 professional services jobs, extensive transit-oriented development, and $47 to $84 billion in new regional GDP […]
Letter urging Governor Baker & Secretary Pollack to make Springfield-Palmer-Worcester the 1st phase of East-West train service
Comment to MassDOT on [DRAFT] East-West Passenger Rail Study Submitted by Citizens for a Palmer Rail Stop 11/19/20 In June 2020, Secretary Pollack expressed the hope that the East-West Passenger Rail Study would lay the groundwork for moving the idea of higher speed rail between western Massachusetts and Boston by way of Worcester from a […]
Take action to make East-West rail a reality: Submit your comment on the draft report through Thursday, November 19, using the East-West Rail Study Comment Form on the MassDOT website — https://bit.ly/3m8TipX [DRAFT] East-West Passenger Rail Study Final Report — https://www.mass.gov/lists/east-west-passenger-rail-study-documents [the 5-chapter draft report is the first document on this web page]
MassDOT’s draft East-West Passenger Rail Study Final Report begs the question of how easily our state government can waste $1 million of taxpayers’ money on a misguided, flawed, and ultimately useless study. Rather than become mired in cynicism at the perfidy of state officials, let’s tell them we’re mad as hell & we aren’t going […]
