A statutory consultation on the Cambridge section of East West Rail is “no longer being progressed” as the government’s ...

Passengers get off an Amtrak train in Northampton last December. Gov. Maura Healey has appointed Andrew Koziol, a UMass Amherst graduate, as the first West-East Rail director within the Department of ...

Cambridge and Oxford are often linked as university cities but there has not been a direct, physical railway connecting them for decades. The East West Rail (EWR) project will change that, linking the ...

Arriva Group’s Chiltern Railways has been selected to operate the first stage of the East West Rail project linking Oxford and Cambridge. The Department for Transport (DfT) said on Tuesday it expected ...

The plan would connect Western Massachusetts to Boston, with potential economic benefits for the western region. U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, of Springfield, remains optimistic. Some skeptics, including ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura T. Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kimberley Driscoll and Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt on Feb. 6 announced that they will be appointing Andy Koziol as Director of ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Healey-Driscoll Administration has appointed a director to the West-East Rail project that would extend passenger rail service from Boston to Worcester, Springfield and Pittsfield.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has secured $108 million in federal funding to begin the process of implementing an East-West passenger rail service, by improving connections between ...

Calling it an essential lifeline, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said Monday that she’ll continue to pursue federal funding for a long-awaited east-west rail route linking Boston, Worcester, ...

After months of hemming and hawing, legislators on Beacon Hill finally delivered a budget to Governor Maura Healey’s desk, which she signed last week. And though there’s much to celebrate in the deal ...

The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District (SMART) announced Dec. 18 that its east-west rail corridor, connecting the City of Novato to Suisun City, has been designated for inclusion under the ...