From The Berkshire Eagle; December 1, 2017
Connecting Berkshire County to New York City by train is not all about trains. Obviously it is primarily, but it is also about assuring that people who get to the Berkshires by train are then able to get around the Berkshires.
The Berkshire Flyer Working Group, led by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, met in Lenox on Monday to continue exploring ways of restoring the Berkshires’ lost passenger rail link to a city with long economic and cultural links to the county (Eagle, December 1.) At the meeting, Amtrak’s Caroline Mael made the important point that train passengers arriving in the Berkshires must have options to get them from the station to their hotel or to a cultural destination like Tanglewood. It is easy for train passengers from the Berkshires to New York City to find a variety of options to get them to their destination but the opposite is the case in the Berkshires, where public transportation is limited.
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