Business Plan #2 (A better Idea)

1. Extend service north to Montreal and east to Boston. This extends operations into 2 major metropolitan cities to anchor service.

2. All of south eastern Vermont has same day, out and back, service to Boston. Logan Airport is now a viable destination to develop traffic.

2. Develop "overhead traffic" to support local (Vermont) operations.

3. Assign spare unit to Boston. This allows use of Amtrak facilities for maintenance and removes the immediate requirement to build a maintenance building.

Shortcomings

1. The spare unit, 20 % of the fleet, is always idle.

2. Each train, with almost 200 seats, probably has too much capacity.

3. Routing through Palmer, a 30 mile detour, seriously erodes service quality.

4. Montpelier, White River Junction, and Brattleboro only major Vermont cities served.

5. Connections to the south will be made in Springfield, Mass.