…will finally be here December 22, we’re told, although it won’t actually be from Vermont, it’ll be from right here. The Vermont part has been indefinitely postponed and maybe, just maybe, changed to Montreal. But just three days before Christmas, the high speed train will be here. Santa Claus won’t be aboard. The Governor will.
Down at the John W. Olver International Bus Station work is furiously underway to build a platform beside the track. The track runs right by the bus station which, when it was built a few years ago with stimulus money, was intended to be a train station too, but nobody thought to build the platform because it was imagined back then, we suppose, the train would never actually arrive. But now we know it will. December 22.
There’s no time (and perhaps no money) to build a permanent platform by the track so construction of a temporary platform is hurriedly underway. From the looks of it, it’s intended to be temporary for a long, long time.
But no matter. The high speed train will leave from here on December 22 around 1:30 PM and arrive in New York City about 6:30, in plenty of time for a fashionably late East Coast supper and perhaps a show. There is no return train until the next morning, so take your jammies if you go.
Yes. The high speed train will whisk you from here to New York City in five hours flat. Or, if you prefer, you can drive it (according to Google) in a little over three.
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