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Thursday wasn’t just Gov. Charlie Baker’s inauguration day. It was that of New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan’s too. In her address to the Granite State public, Gov. Hassan suggested building a commuter rail line between Boston and Manchester, the largest city in N.H.

According to Gov. Hassan, the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority projects a rail from Boston to Manchester would have about 3,000 riders daily. New Hampshire Public Radio states that some 80,000 residents commute to Massachusetts for work daily.

NHDOT speculated in the past that rail service from Lowell to Manchester, by way of Nashua, would cost upwards of $200 million. The state is currently examining the feasibility of a direct line to Boston, contending that the potential for economic growth correlates directly with the likelihood of New Hampshire being able to retain, and foster, young talent.

Massachusetts, though, doesn’t seem quite as inclined to laying spikes and miles of track as its neighbor to the north. The MassDOT 10-year, $13 billion capital investment plan, created under former Gov. Deval Patrick outlines a number of commuter rail projects, including the completition of the $1.8 billion South Coast Rail.

An $850 million expansion of Boston’s South Station is also expected to help facilitate a higher volume of  train travel from “Worcester to Springfield rail and future high-speed service to Montreal.”

And then there’s the plan to revitalizse the direct line from Pittsfield in the Berkshires to New York City and build upon the success seen in service between Boston and Hyannis on the Cape.

But there’s absolutely no mention of New Hampshire and Gov. Baker, for his part, has yet to utter anything related to it. Baker and his administration, for now at least, is all about the South Coast Rail.

That’s not to say Gov. Baker will completely shut the idea down. He’s just one day into his term, after all, and he’s made it clear that his priorities right out of the gate will be to balance the state budget, take on substance abuse and opioid addiction, and to foster a job-creation economy in some of the Commonwealth’s more under-resourced cities.