AKBigDaddy t1_j7ujmsy wrote on February 9, 2023 at 2:46 PM

Reply to comment by Sman_theman in Want passenger rail in Manchester? Make your voice heard by PurpleSubtlePlan

Right? At most my wife and I will do a day trip to boston. We'll leave after breakfast, home around dinner. Parking is a PITA and expensive, driving around Boston is a clusterfuck. If I could take a train right into downtown, instead of driving down, catching a bruins game, and driving home, we'd make a weekend of it, take the train in, shop around, hit up the bars, stay in a hotel, and take the train back the next day.

Not to mention there's perks coming the OTHER way too- flying out of MHT is a lot cheaper than BOS sometimes, so being able to just hop a train up to manch and fly out from there would make people far more likely to consider it as an option. That draws more people in, more money brought into the local economy.

Sman_theman t1_j7v1qwk wrote on February 9, 2023 at 4:46 PM

Exactly! Usually when I go to a bruins game I take the orange line in from malden. Which makes it easy to get out of the city but traffic is BRUTAL to get there. A few weeks ago I was going down for a game and ended up sitting in traffic for nearly 2 hours because of an accident.

AKBigDaddy t1_j7v3msk wrote on February 9, 2023 at 4:58 PM

I drive all the way from the upper valley, I would love to only have to drive to Manch and just catch a train.

sirspidermonkey t1_j7v4zit wrote on February 9, 2023 at 5:07 PM

I know no one would openly commit MA tax fraud by hoping the rail to a retail district in NH and skipping out on sales taxes.

But if they did...I'm pretty sure we'd benefit.

AKBigDaddy t1_j7v5blx wrote on February 9, 2023 at 5:09 PM

I thought about that, but I also was thinking of the fact that the boston area has far better shopping options. But you're right. If you could take an hour ride on a train on a day off, you could save a bundle on taxes.