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starsandfrost t1_jd0767t wrote

Reply to comment by sporky211 in East West Rail Commission by Alluminatus

> the issue of the east-west railway stall and the issue of Charlie Baker being lobbied out of it by the owner of the Peter Pan Bus Company

What? Is Peter Pan trying to shut it down?

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Alluminatus OP t1_jd0bci2 wrote

Certainly did a couple years ago, delayed the study. I don’t know about modern day though. Here’s a MassLive article about it.

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Redshirt45 t1_jd3ayft wrote

So sad that is the state of our political landscape that the crappy-ass Peter Pan bus company can pay something like $200,000, a pittance, to stop an initiative that would help the entire state’s economy on multiple levels and is glaringly obvious in terms of the need.

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Alluminatus OP t1_jd3frji wrote

Welcome to politics I suppose, it’s really annoying

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starsandfrost t1_jd496z6 wrote

Thanks for the link. That was before my time here and is disappointing to see, to say the least.

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Alluminatus OP t1_jd4ake2 wrote

Very. It appears a pretty big staircase I’m sizing up to make a case for a proper rail service.

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