The future of commuter rail could be taking shape in Boston
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Marvin Martin was in the Four Corners area of Dorchester one day when a train sped by on the Fairmount Line into downtown Boston. It was filled with white people, sitting comfortably and reading newspapers. It made him wonder why the commuter line seemed to pass through communities of color without stopping, leaving people in his neighborhood to crowd into buses. Martin decided to do something about that. In 1995, he and others began pressuring…
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