The Press: End of Joke

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In Providence, where the old Union Station is one of the city's biggest eyesores, Evening Bulletin Reporters James Doyle and John Quinn made a brash suggestion. A year ago they wrote a kidding column proposing that the New Haven Railroad move the station from the heart of the downtown section by tunneling under State House Hill and re-routing the main-line railroad tracks. Wrote Doyle and Quinn: "We are forced to omit little details [because] our engineering consultant is sweating out a Red Sox fight in the American League and has no time for trifles." The "Doyle-Quinn" plan became a standing joke in Providence, but the New Haven thought such a plan no joke. Recently, the local Rotary Club was told that the railroad was thinking of making a change. Last week, the board of the New Haven Railroad approved a plan for relocating Union Station just as Reporters Doyle and Quinn had suggested.