STEP meeting
Topics included Green Line financing, possible involvement in a variety of other groups and projects, and STEP strategic planning. Meetings notes (PDF)
Topics included Green Line financing, possible involvement in a variety of other groups and projects, and STEP strategic planning. Meetings notes (PDF)
The Boston MPO has issued Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) Amendments for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, and is accepting public comments. Keep reading for more details.
As we plan ahead for the Green Line, let's get to know our Somerville neighborhoods better: - Population density - Household income - Percent foreign born - Rents - Households with no vehicles - Commuting via public transit - And more View census maps...
Wig was among eight people selected to speak today at a meeting of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. Afterward, the panel agreed to clarify and stress the seriousness of its prior recommendation to EPA Administer Johnson calling for stricter annual average fine particulate matter standards. (EPA proposed an unchanged annual standard on December 21st despite overwhelming scientific evidence of significant harm to human health at the exposure levels allowed currently.)
Topics included the Medford Green Line meeting, upcoming Green Line activities, and possible air quality and environmental justice research collaboration opportunities. Meeting notes (PDF)
"Aldermen reject possible Green Line delay" âThe state made a commitment to Somerville, a promise that it would happen. I want to see that this commitment is honored,â said Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gerwitz.
The Affordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice This report from The Brookings Institution describes a new information tool developed by the Urban Markets Initiative to quantify, for the first time, the impact of transportation costs on the affordability of housing choices.
“NorthPoint speeds new T station plan”
Backers of the massive $2 billion NorthPoint project are speeding up plans to build a new Lechmere T station in an effort to boost future condo and office sales at the East Cambridge development site.
The move to start construction as early as next year – rather than in 2010 or 2011 – could also accelerate plans to eventually extend the Green Line into Somerville and West Medford.