“Try the train.”
MBTA Chief Operating Officer Ryan Coholan pitched a sizable crowd assembled at Freetown Elementary School on the benefits of South Coast Rail, adding, “I can tell you it took an hour and 48 minutes for me to drive from Boston to here tonight — so I highly recommend the train.”
When commuter rail is expected to start running to Fall River and New Bedford on March 24, he said, trains should be running every 70 minutes on weekdays and every 2 hours on weekends.
One New Bedford visitor to the meeting noted that a full trip from end to end will take an hour and a half — “90 minutes is a long time,” he said.
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