> > Saving gas just got easier for people who work in Nashville but live in another county. Commuter train service begins today with a train that runs into Nashville from Lebanon, which is in Wilson County. Plans are to add more trains coming in from other directions.
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> > Like other fast-growing cities, Nashville has traffic problems. Maybe the trains will help.
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> I don't know that I'd call York a fast-growing city, but our local transit service (bus, not train) just started a daily commuter route to Harrisburg and back, and they are now talking about starting one that will run to Hunt Valley, MD (just north of Baltimore).
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> Unfortunately, because of where I work, the new service won't do me much good, unless I could find somebody else who works here that commutes from the Hunt Valley area and would be willing to pick me up from the bus station. Still, it's nice to see that the Rabbit is doing their part to conserve gas.
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> Gri"our buses are red with white cotton tails painted on the back"shny

Nashville has always had good bus service. Even in the 1950's I could go anywhere on the bus. The city is laid out like the spokes of a wheel with downtown at the hub, so you could get on a bus in the outskirts and ride down to the hub, then transfer to another "spoke" and go just about anywhere.

The trains, if they work, will bring people in from neighboring counties to the bus system. If the cost is reasonable, and it works effiecently, it should be a success.
Howard