While ridership on CTrail’s Hartford Line has slowed to a trickle in recent weeks, the town of Windsor Locks in April scored a major $45-million commitment from the state Bond Commission to fund construction of a new train station downtown on Main Street. With $62.4 million in state and federal funding now approved for the project, town officials are eyeing a roughly $45-million mixed-use development around the station as part of a public-private partnership that would include construction of several properties housing new apartments, commercial space as well as an indoor public market. The money will also help fund a reconfiguration of local streets and intersections, improvements to mainline rail track and construction of a new maintenance facility for Amtrak. A request for proposals will be going out soon for a project contractor, Kervick said, but there is no construction timetable yet.
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