(The following appeared on the Sun Journal website on March 17, 2011.)
LEWISTON, Maine — Establishing regular rail service between Auburn and Portland in 2020 could cost up to $234 million to start and could require an $8 million annual subsidy, according to a new study presented Wednesday night.
Transportation planners from AECOM told an Auburn crowd that extending that service to Montreal could cost up to $900 million in inflation-adjusted 2020 dollars but the service could attract an additional 204,400 passengers to the Amtrak Downeaster service.
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