“When you step off that train, where do you go?” Rutland Redevelopment Authority Executive Director Brennan Duffy asked on Monday. “Where is it logical you would leave and walk to.”

Duffy said the Rutland Regional Planning Commission was working on designs for improving the area around the station to make it more aesthetically pleasing, provide a “sense of arrival” and improve pedestrian safety.

Community NewsDowntown RutlandJuly 26, 2021Downtown Rutland Development, Downtown Rutland, Amtrak, Vermont, Rutland Amtrak, Ethan Allen Express, Rutland Train Station, Rutland Plaza, Rutland Vermont

Amtrak is back

At 7:30 a.m. on Monday, July 19, the James M. Jeffords Station in downtown Rutland was packed with passengers eager to board the Ethan Allen Express for the first time in 16 months. Many local officials and residents were there for the celebration. After remarks at the Rutland station they rode to Castleton for a second celebration.

“This is yet another example that Vermont is open,” Lyle Jepson, executive director of the area Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region, told the Rutland crowd.

Community NewsDowntown RutlandJuly 22, 2021Downtown Rutland, Downtown Rutland Amtrak, Ethan Allen Express, Downtown Rutland Train, Rutland Vermont Train