has remained not available. In October 2010, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation received a $2.24 million federal grant to study an extension of the Lowell Line to Concord. In January 2011, a bill was introduced into the New Hampshire legislature to end the proposed extension and give up a potential $4.1 million grant into its planning. The MBTA acquired trackage rights from Pan Am in May 2011 as part of a larger transaction. In December 2020, a $5.5 million contract was awarded to AECOM for preliminary engineering and design work, environmental and public engagement services, and final design, for the project to extend MBTA commuter rail service to southern New Hampshire. With President Joe Biden signing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in November 2021, $66 million has been allotted to rejuvenate rail transit in the United States, which is bringing the commuter rail service to NH closer. The plan called for the extension of the Lowell Line up through Nashua and Manchester, the state's two most-populous cities. The proposed expansion would include four new stops: South Nashua near the Pheasant Lane Mall, Crown Street in Nashua, a site in Bedford intended to serve Manchester–Boston Regional Airport, and behind the Market Basket in Manchester, which was chosen as a hybrid site between the two previously considered options at Valley Street and Granite Street. In January of 2022, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the location for new facilities to house layover trains adjacent to the Manchester Transit Authority facilities. The track from Lowell to Manchester exists already from the previous commuter rail service. Jonathan Bruneau of Jacobs Engineering states, "It's a beat-up little railroad however it doesn't look that bad. If you're out there and you're looking at it, it supported coal trains for years. We're just gonna try to make it a little bit better, a little bit faster". Extending service to NH was projected to provide an expected 34 trains a day to Nashua, and 16 a day to Manchester, connecting commuters from Nashua to Boston as low as 54 minutes, and commuters from Manchester to Boston in as low as 1 hour and 25 minutes with 3,120 passengers a day. The project was estimated to cost $246 million in the 2014 NHDOT report. The expansion of the commuter rail to Southern New Hampshire has been met with both positive and negative reviews. Support for