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A press briefing puts a new pricetag on the South Coast Rail project. Project officials and MassDOT told the public today that the South Coast Rail project, as it stands, would cost the state $3.4 billion, over $1 billion more than previous estimates placed the project at...

With Southcoast Rail's future still cloudy, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell says the State could focus on other housekeeping items in the interim. Speaking on his weekly radio program, Mitchell says the replacement of the more-than-a-century-old New Bedford/Fairhaven Bridge is at the top of his wish-list...

A Southcoast Rail Task Force meeting is being set aside until after a MassDOT Board of Directors meeting on Monday. That's when several sources tell WBSM News the Board will abandon plans for the $2+ billion Stoughton route and turn their focus to the much more affordable Lakeville/Middleboro alternative...

With the dream of commuter rail connecting  Southeastern Massachusetts with Boston appearing more elusive every day one has to wonder what will be done to address the current commuter nightmare. The Boston-based "Better City" business group says the problem gets worse over time with an estimated 80 thousand additional cars on the road every work day by 2030...

It appears the South Coast Rail project may be, as former Mayor Scott Long tells me, "dead as a doornail," yet not everyone seems willing to accept that prognosis. Several years ago the Massachusetts Legislature voted to authorize the former Patrick Administration to bond for the rail project, it did not.  S...

The SouthCoast Rail project is still alive. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is proposing $148 million in funding for the project over the next five years, with a final vote to be taken next month. SouthCoast Rail Project Manager Jean Fox tells WBSM's Barry Richard if approved, the funding would continue to build a foundation for commuter rail from Boston to Southeastern Massachusett

BOSTON (AP) _ The price tag for the MBTA's planned Green Line extension into Somerville and Medford could come in at up to $1 billion more than first estimated. The cost to the state for the expansion was initially projected at about $2...

24/7 News Source - The head of Boston's transit agency is resigning following a controversial decision to shut down rail service during a huge snowstorm. Massachusetts transit officials say Beverly Scott will step down on April 11th...

The federal government is providing Massachusetts with $996 million for rail improvements, but not on the South Coast. The funds amount to just 43% of the total cost of the extension of the MBTA's Green Line to Somerville and Medford. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell says the federal monies come from a grant that specifically targets light rail such as the "T", but even so...

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has been given the green light to award an $18 million contract for early work on South Coast Rail. The contract with LM Heavy Civil Construction will improve five grade crossings along the South Coast Rail corridor, including one in Taunton, one in New Bedford, and three in Freetown...