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BuddyBear17 t1_iziue5h wrote

Reply to comment by Ironbird207 in Please Bring the Amtrak To Bangor by PhiloBlackCardinal

You need rezonings to allow additional residential construction so that the potential ridership is higher. But for that to even matter, there needs to be at least some market pressure for more residences there due to good job opportunities, which there really aren't in Bangor's moribund local economy. But jobs, housing, ridership, and new rail service is the order of operations.

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mymaineaccount46 t1_izj00z5 wrote

You would need massive growth in Bangor to be worth doing an Amtrak line, and that comes with a lot of its own issues. It's not a very large city. Personally I kinda like Bangor how it is. Not too big and busy, not too small as to have nothing.

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