PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 16, 2021
As we emerge from this difficult COVID year, we need something big for Maine, something transformative, something bold, something that will help solve both economic woes and our next upcoming disaster (of even larger proportions: climate change). We have this fix, and it is a revolution in the Maine transportation equation. Electric passenger rail service, joining all of Maine’s larger cities, with connections to the rest of the state and to Boston and Canada in the near future! We can emerge from this gloomy past year with new vigor, new solutions and transform the state’s failing automobile, truck and asphalt-based transportation into a permanent, sustainable transportation backbone. Please call or write your legislator today, to support all rail bills. ~ Paul Weiss, Maine Rail Group and Maine Rail Transit Coalition