“Ideally Harvard would fund this one,” Mook said, adding that the project would not only benefit the community but also offer the University further infrastructure for the Allston campus.

University spokesperson Brigid O’Rourke declined to comments on the proposal directly.

“We don’t wish to speculate,” O’Rourke wrote in an email. “We will continue to participate in MassDOT’s Task Force process, which has only recently begun.”

Public-private partnerships to fund rail stations in the Boston Area are not unheard of. New Balance funded the construction of a passenger rail station near its corporate headquarters in Brighton.

—Staff writer Tyler S. Olkowski can be reached at tyler.olkowski@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @OlkowskiTyler.

—Staff writer Theodore R. Delwiche can be reached at theodore.delwiche@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @trdelwic.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: May 28, 2014

An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of Allston resident and task force member Galen M. Mook.