MBTA

North-South Rail Link rides again

By CommonWealth Staff MBTA, Transportation 2 Comments Aug 19, 2015

The dynamic duo of Michael Dukakis and William Weld have teamed up to seize the headlines in the dog days of summer with a surefire conversation starter: building the North-South Rail Link. The former governors joined forces in a Boston Globe opinion column to laud the benefits of a one-mile tunnel connecting South Station to North(...)

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