Cameron on Railroads 2023
Service Cuts and Higher Ticket Prices on Connecticut Trains — It’s a Done Deal
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How’s this for a double-whammy? The Connecticut Department of Transportation is proposing a cut in train and bus service while also raising fares — just as I predicted months ago. Blame both plans on Covid and what it did to ridership, still down about 30% on Metro-North compared with 2019 — but climbing, day by day. On Shore Line East, CDOT’s railroad from New Haven to New London, the ridership is down 68% from pre-Covid numbers. Low ridership like that, says CDOT, is unsustainable.