TRAVERSE CITY — A standing-room-only crowd packed into a library meeting room to listen to the outcome of an initial study into whether passenger rail service from southeast Michigan into Traverse City is feasible.
Consultant Alexander Metcalf, president of Transportation Economics & Management Systems Inc., spoke at length Wednesday evening about the outcome of the feasibility study. Metcalf said there is a strong case for passenger train service in northern Michigan that would pass both federal and state standards for financial and economic viability — an unexpected forecast for what at first seemed to him to be small, far-flung northern cities.
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