Green Line

The following is from Denise Provost’s email newsletter…
On Monday, July 24, I organized a meeting for the Somerville Legislative Delegation with representatives from MassHighway, MBTA, the Executive Office of Transportation (EOT), and from the City of Somerville to discuss the Green Line extension. Specifically, we met to clarify the timeline for progress on the Green Line extension, from engineering and public process, to identifying a funding source for the project.
We learned that EOT has a consultant doing some of the environmental evaluations, and expects to hold a public hearing this September (date TBA) on the Environmental Notification Form (ENF) for the project. The redrafted Ozone State Implementation Plan (“Ozone SIP”) regulations have gone to the state’s Office of Administration and Finance (A&F), and are expected to be released within the next month or two. It is expected that the project will be in the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) in July, 2007, but that an alignment and station locations will not be identified until the end of 2007 or in 2008.

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The Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has posted drafts of two important documents. The FY 2007 Draft Unified Planning Work Program (known as the UPWP) is an annual summary of all transportation planning projects expected to be undertaken in the region during the fiscal year. The 2007-2010 Transportation Improvement Program (known as the TIP) shows all transportation projects in the next…

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...

“Green Line has public seeing red”

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"Aldermen reject possible Green Line delay" “The state made a commitment to Somerville, a promise that it would happen. I want to see that this commitment is honored,” said Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gerwitz.

“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.

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“A T delay, and square is fuming”

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"T-easing pollution: A series of air-clearing public-transit projects, mapped out in the early '90s, remain controversial — and incomplete" "These expansions - and their supposed benefits - have been a source of controversy for some 15 years already, and the debate isn't over yet."

“Green Line boosters: We want trains by 2011”

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