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Nonprofit provides high-resolution maps showing FRA’s planned alteration of Norwalk landscape
Correction, 12 p.m.: Rilling and other mayors met with U.S. Sen. Murphy, not Federal Rails Administration officials. NORWALK, Conn. — Federal plans to expand high-speed rail infrastructure through Connecticut include a tunnel along Interstate-95 in East Norwalk, through Strawberry Hill Avenue and Norden Place. High speed rail line would be dug in a trench along…
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Norwalk legislators promise to keep eye on feds’ alternative rail line
NORWALK, Conn. – It’s understandable that people are upset about a Federal Rails Administration (FRA) proposal to run a new railroad track through Norwalk, Darien and Westport but concerns are premature, State Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-25) said Saturday. “I am not sure there’s any there, there,” Duff said Saturday, responding to a question…
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UPDATED: Feds, in long range plan, look to add a Norwalk rail line
Updated, 6 p.m. Dec. 20: Information from FRA. (Story was originally published at 1:51 a.m. Dec. 19.) NORWALK, Conn. – A federal plan to increase rail service in the Northeast corridor would add a rail line through Norwalk and it’s immediately surrounding communities. State officials say it will never happen. “The FRA’s (Federal Railroad Administration’s)…
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Connecticut officials say federal railroad proposal is still D.O.A.
HARTFORD, Conn. – Federal railroad officials endorsed a controversial plan to bring high-speed rail through a historic part of Old Lyme as part of the new Old Saybrook-to-Rhode Island bypass for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. But no one in Connecticut seems to be on board. Connecticut’s elected officials said they will do everything in their power…
