FALL RIVER — Those who've been waiting for South Coast Rail will have to continue waiting almost another year before they can ride the rails. 

 

At a public meeting hosted by the MBTA at Bristol Community College on Thursday afternoon, General Manager Phillip Eng unveiled a revised timetable for South Coast Rail service to finally accept passengers: May 2025. 

 

The latest delay pushes departure times far beyond the MBTA’s initially promised start date of late 2023. 

 

The MBTA also revealed the ticket cost to the public, but would not say what the daily train schedule would look like and would not guarantee weekend service. 

 

Eng said he felt compelled to meet publicly with residents in Fall River and New Bedford after “it became apparent that the schedule does not match what we had publicly advertised.” 

 

Two meetings were hastily announced mid-afternoon on Wednesday, one at Bristol's Fall River campus and another immediately afterward at the Whaling Museum in New Bedford.

 

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