AUBURN — An effort to restore passenger rail service between Portland and Auburn comes to Danville next week.
Members of the Maine Rail Transit Coalition and the Sierra Club will host an informational meeting about efforts to bring rail service to the area.
“The greatest demand for residents for rail service has come from this area and from Bethel and Oxford,” said Tony Donovan of the coalition.
The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Nov. 29 at the Danville Junction Grange off of Old Danville Road.
Donovan’s group picked up a $15,000 grant in August from the National Association of Realtors to help find new ways to pay for the 29-mile St. Lawrence and Atlantic public transit line between India Street in Portland and the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport.
“We are meeting with residents in communities along the line and now this is our opportunity meet with people from Pownal and New Gloucester and the Danville Junction area.”
Donovan said the initial study would look for funding for a commuter rail service of up to 22 round trips daily between the two cities.
It could set the stage for future expansion beyond Auburn, to Bethel, Maine’s western ski resorts and on to Quebec.
“We have a PowerPoint presentation that outlines our vision,” he said. “We’re calling it a visioning session and we will present our vision of what we are proposing for the passenger rail service.”
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