> Maybe have a WRTA bus route between Union Station and the Fitchburg multi-modal station.

Nah. If the WRTA makes any changes, they should be cutting routes so that they're more condensed and focused on serving high frequency corridors in the city limits over sprawling geographies where ridership is lower. Get the city right first and immediate suburbs right first - high frequency service, rapid lanes, high traffic corridors.

The furthest out stops should be right now are places like Shrewsbury, Auburn, Cherry Valley, West Boylston, Holden, etc. Direct routes right into the city for commuters to have an option where they can avoid hopping on 290/190.

Once we actually get ridership and reliability established, then explore those connectors.

I can see an express bus route between the two if they worked it out.

Or be forward thinking and not wait till there’s an over abundance of demand and then do something about it.

Like our highways, there was t a huge demand from Oxford and Webster to have 395. But since it’s been here the towns along it have increased population well above those who don’t have access.

Building rail lines ahead of time helps “city/urban planners” establish and organize burbs or urban areas ahead of time so we don’t end up with the disasters that are the up and down, left and right mess that are Worcester streets.

I've taken the MART shuttle from Union Station to Fitchburg, it's great and $5--just only runs a couple of times a day. Underutilized service.