NEW BEDFORD — Steve Stock is looking forward to finishing a project that’s as old as he is.He’s a project manager for South Coast Rail, which will soon make New Bedford and Fall River part of the MBTA’s commuter rail network — an undertaking that has been in the works since the late 1980s.“Before I was born, they were talking about this project,” said Stock, 34, who stood on the platform of New Bedford’s unfinished Church Street Station on a recent sunny afternoon.Behind him, an excavator cleared away dirt to make room for concrete barriers. The platform Stock stood on is complete, and so are the tracks running next to it. Crews will add canopies, paving, and landscaping to the station over the next few weeks.After decades of delays, trains will start carrying passengers between the South Coast and Boston’s South Station by the end of 2023, transit officials say. It will be the first train service from New Bedford to Boston since 1958.“When they did the groundbreaking in Freetown [in J...
