RIDING THE RAILS: Is $63M train station helping to put Pawtucket on right track?

Matthew McNulty

05/23/2025

HOMEWARD BOUND: Passengers disembark from a commuter train at the Pawtucket-Central Falls station on a recent weekday afternoon. The train arrived from Boston.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

The train platform at the Pawtucket-Central Falls Transit Center is bustling, and longtime Pawtucket resident Charlie Zechel is among the dozens of people waiting on a recent weekday morning for the next train to arrive from Providence and whisk them into Massachusetts. For more than two decades, Zechel has been commuting to his job as

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