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Brown U. Backs Commuter Train To Neighboring City

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: John Flaherty
30 December 2003 - 11:00am

A novel plan to unite the East Providence's waterfront and the city's east side via train gets the support of Brown University.

"Now a lawyer, Manchester was a student at Brown University in the early 1960s, when trains regularly rumbled under the East Side on their way from downtown Providence to points on the other side of the Seekonk River and beyond...Such a development has reportedly attracted the interest of Brown University, which has a strong interest in solving a housing and parking shortage."

Full Story: Developer proposes E. Providence train linking to East Side
Source: The Providence Journal, December 29, 2003
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