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The state’s 2012 bet on commuter-rail service has yet to pay off. Is it time to privatize?

By Mary MacDonald

REGULAR COMMUTER: Andy Arsenian of South Kingstown is a regular commuter to his job at Bank of America and has seen few people on his ride since the R.I. Department of Transportation in July started offering free, daily train service between North Kingstown, T.F. Green Airport and Providence Station. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
REGULAR COMMUTER: Andy Arsenian of South Kingstown is a regular commuter to his job at Bank of America and has seen few people on his ride since the R.I. Department of Transportation in July started offering free, daily train service between North Kingstown, T.F. Green Airport and Providence Station. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

On the 7:45 a.m. train ride to Boston, via Wickford Junction, Andy Arsenian sat in a comfortable booth seat, his tablet on the table in front connected to free wireless. A few rows behind him, a fellow commuter took a business call. All around them, they had plenty of privacy. The commuter-train car had just

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