l, The Berkshire Edge; September 27, 2017
Lenox — It’s been a while since interested people got together to discuss a possible return of passenger rail to the Berkshires. But that’s precisely what happened on Tuesday afternoon as a working group empaneled by the state legislature got together to discuss whether rail travel to New York City could be restored, would be feasible, and, if so, its possible impact on tourism.
First-term state Sen. Adam Hinds, D-Pittsfield, who represents the Berkshires and is Senate chair of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, had called the meeting after receiving approval from lawmakers to establish a working group whose task would be “to identify and evaluate the economic and cultural benefits and political, legal or logistical challenges” to the Berkshires and the state of “establishing direct seasonal weekend passenger rail service” between New York and Pittsfield between Memorial Day and Columbus Day weekends, on a route connecting to the Hudson River line that carries Amtrak passenger trains between Penn Station and Albany, New York.
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