In 2017, Nashua eagerly embraced an opportunity to build a rail stop for the newly formed Boston Surface Railroad. It was a planned for-profit passenger rail service with a dirty public money secret we exposed back in 2017.
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Nashua’s Rail Solution Creates More Traffic Not Less
The New Hampshire commuter rail boondoggle (or just ‘rail’) has a long history on these pages. There is very little about it we have not explored. Traffic fits that profile. Before you can ride a train, you need to get to it. That’s a problem for Nashua but they are forging ahead anyway. Start with a 5.2 Million dollar hit.
The Latest Chapter in Nashua “Privately Funded” Rail Fantasy
The subheading to the Union Leader article reads “In 2017, the city took steps to explore bringing privately-funded passenger rail service to Nashua.” What follows is reporting about the release of a 30-page report. An impossible dream that was unmasked on Granitegrok in 2017 when Nashua first embraced it.