This excellent op-ed titled, “Don’t Let Amtrak Tear Through Shoreline Villages,” was published today on the courant.com.  The author is Robert M. Thorson, who is a professor at the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 

The op-ed begins:

“Late last month, more than 500 enraged citizens crammed into an auditorium in the sleepy hollow of Old Lyme to beat up on bureaucrats from Washington. Led by a gang of national and state senators, representatives, mayors, first selectmen and business leaders, they lambasted the Federal Railroad Administration for proposing a new high-speed rail corridor through southeastern Connecticut and western Rhode Island.

The topic was Amtrak‘s Acela Express …”

Click here to read the column in full.