The amended JOURNEY TO 2030 long-range transportation plan summarizes the current status of the Green Line extensions, including the two-phased approach. For next steps, it discusses two major milestones: filing of the Environmental Impact Report in August (which didn't happen) and the New Starts application this fall. View the complete document or start at page 13-74 of chapter 13 (PDF).
Tufts Daily: "Green Line extension costs to top $1 billion" The cost of the project's first six stops, which will culminate near Tufts at College Avenue, rose from $600 billion to $934 billion this summer. A seventh stop was added to the plan in February, and summer estimates put its price tag at $130 million. Project Manager Kate Fichter said the…
"Somerville may change zoning to oppose Yard 8 plan" Zoning changes proposed by Somerville's Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD) would effectively block the state's controversial proposal to place a Green Line rail yard in the Brickbottom area while opening a section on the city's border with Cambridge to an alternative plan.
"Gilman Square community meeting sparks interest, concerns" Residents were happy to discuss their hopes and fears about the implementation of the proposed stop: keeping businesses local, ensuring that low and moderate income residents wouldn't be shoved out by insidious rent increases, maintaining the local character, improving car traffic and pedestrian conditions, ensuring planning for green spaces, public safety, and reserving new…
"Green Line meeting: Residents envision growth, but fear pushing out the immigrant population"
Somerville Journal: "State scrambles to meet Green Line commitments this year" âThe state is a strong candidate for federal funding,â said Wig Zamore from STEP, who has long been an advocate of the Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford. âThe state has had 30 years to figure this out and is running out of rope. I am hopeful it will…
"The Green Line Extension conversation comes to Union Square" Representatives from Save Our Somerville, Tufts University, STEP, and residents from Union Square and neighboring areas of Somerville came together to discuss what this change will mean for Union Square.
In June, STEP sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Aloisi about our concerns with the proposed location of the Green Line maintenance facility in Yard 8. Steve Woelfel has responded to that letter, but our concerns about the operation of the Green Line extensions in relation to the maintenance facility locations has still not been addressed. Download and read his letter…
In tough fiscal times, grandiose transit plans never die - they're just shelved Right now, most of the energy and money is going toward a Green Line extension in Somerville and Medford, but the state cannot guarantee that it will have the money to get past Tufts University, even though the plan calls for it to extend to the Mystic Valley…
"After thirty years, Somervillians prepare for Green Line Extension" In each location, from the neighborhood surrounding the Lowell Street stop to College Avenue, general themes have arisen to indicate the priorities of Somerville's residents. "The common points," Regan said, "are wanting to make sure there is good access to stations, a minimal effect on parking and a desire to protect small…