PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A committee that spent the last two years working on the Berkshire Flyer project is anxious to see how 2,600 new visitors to the Berkshires each summer will bolster the economy.
The goal is a passenger rail service from New York City to Pittsfield, departing Penn Station on Friday afternoon and returning Sunday afternoon throughout the summer to bring a new visitors to the area.
“We are targeting tourists and targeting second homeowners but we don’t necessarily want to just give folks who are already coming here another way to get here, we also want to say can we attract and target folks who are not coming here,” state Sen. Adam Hinds said. Read more about the Flyer Plan >>