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The Berkshire Eagle in Massachusetts reports on how Karen Christensen, an advocate for transportation by train in Massachusetts, recently started the Train Time podcast as a natural outgrowth of her train campaign. She’s been an advocate for trains since 1991. Her show interviews politicians and experts to talk about why trains are important. and how we can improve them.
She feels in part that government spending on the highway system has shifted the focus on public transportation and has sent some of our jobs overseas.
According to Kristensen, “It’s not just people commuting back and forth between Pittsfield and Boston,” Christensen said. “If you have north-south connection to New York on the Housatonic line, you’ll have people connecting to New York [City] or Albany. And Pittsfield becomes this very lively center.”