By Susan Bigelow, Connecticut News Junkie; June 21, 2018
I crammed myself aboard an Amtrak train with a few hundred of my closest friends this past weekend, rode down to Meriden to wander around the beautiful new Meriden Green, and then I boarded a standing-room-only CTRail train back to Windsor Locks. The Hartford Line was open at last, travel was free, and people were excited.
It was a break from reality. For a single day I lived in a place where people cared about things like rail lines, where public transportation projects actually got funded, and the federal government invested in the future.
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