Originally Posted by OB one
Well the MBTA commuter rail already comes to Worcester, although it doesn't get you to the airport, and to think of it, it doesn't even get you to the rehabbed Union Station as it stops about 100 yards up the tracks.
Hmm. Any time I've seen a train stopped in Worcester station since the refurb, it's been in Union Station itself, not the skanky little Amtrak platform on the other side of I-290. Have things changed
again?
(Plus the little platform is connected directly to Union Station anyway, so if your train stops there you can walk through the station and down the stairs to the street.)
From my point of view what really killed ORH as a viable airport was the Fort Point Tunnel. That cut literally half an hour off average travel times from Metrowest to Logan, and so made Logan much more appealing as an airport to fly out of.
Various people keep saying 'it's the lack of a fast road from the Pike to ORH that's the problem' -- but these days I'm not sure that would save ORH either. MHT manages on that score, although of course they have reasonably advanced plans to build a new fast road and it's only two miles from I-293.