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Boston’s Fairmount Line Could Be a National Model for Commuter Rail

August 1, 2017

Commuter rail in the United States mostly caters to affluent suburbanites who commute to the city center. Even though these lines pass through working class city neighborhoods that stand to benefit enormously from better transit, the service they provide passes those communities by. It doesn’t have to be that way.

In Boston, the MBTA is starting to do things differently on a commuter rail line that serves one of the poorest parts of the region.

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