On Monday, the state announced its recommendation for the location of a 10- to 12-acre maintenance facility to support the future extended Green Line: on Yard 8 in the Inner Belt area. Since then, Somerville officials and residents (including STEP) have criticized the proposal, saying it would thwart plans to commercially develop the area. Boston Globe: "In Medford, Somerville, gripes over…
STEP's interactive map has been updated to reflect the recent recommendations by the state and its consultant VHB. The proposed Green Line stops are there, and if you zoom in you'll see the potential platform location for each stop on the Lowell Line (based on platform locations shown in the community workshops a few months ago). Also shown is the proposed…
Boston Globe: "Potential Green Line stops announced in Somerville, Medford" Medford Transcript: "Green Line stops announced for Hillside, Route 16"
At the Green Line Advisory Group meeting today, the state and its consultant Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) announced their recommendations for most of the stops along the new Green Line extensions. The stops are not final yet; some locations (such as the Lowell Line terminus and the Union Square stop) are still under discussion, and all will be open for public…
Somerville News: "State fully funds Green Line extension" âThis is a landmark step toward realizing the long awaited goal of extending Green Line trolley service through Somerville and into Medford,â Mayor Curtatone said. Tufts Daily: "Governor Patrick approves funding for Green Line extension"
Good news about the Green Line! Governor Deval Patrick today signed the $3.5 billion transportation bond bill to invest in road and bridge projects across the Commonwealth, including $700 million for State Improvement Plan commitments to increase transit access across eastern Massachusetts on three projects, including the Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford. This is a critical step forward for…
Somerville gets $857,549 in transportation projects, including the Green Line extensions, assuming the bill that just passed the Senate makes it through conference committee. Somerville Journal: "Somerville's delegation hails transportation money"
Excellent news today as the $1.6 billion Transportation Bond Bill passed in the House of Representatives. It includes $700 million for the Green Line extension. âThis should be a big hurrah for the Green Line funding,â State Rep. Carl Sciortino said. âThis is a big win for us.â Two things in the bill also help to streamline the Green Line project:…
"Going Green?" âArlington has a great deal of interest in public transportation,â Town Manager Brian Sullivan said in his introductory remarks at the March 26 meeting. âWe're very supportive of it. [The Green Line extension] is a win-win situation.â "[Kristine Wickham Zimmerman, a consultant with Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.,] said she expects the EOTPW will come back to affected communities in…
The show âThe Public Squareâ features an in-depth conversation about an issue of interest to Arlington, and the following episode is about the Green Line extension. It includes interviews with some Arlington residents, Carrie Russell of the Conservation Law Foundation, and Steve Woelfel who manages the project at the Executive Office of Transportation. It concludes with a panel discussion of people…