Somerville Journal: "Aldermen want to be in loop on talks of Green Line, stadium" âWe are concerned that about the actual location of the maintenance facility and that the decision will just get made and we'll have to live with it,â said Ward 2 Alderman Maryann Heuston. âWe want to make sure nothing jeopardizes the Green Line coming to Somerville by…
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Somerville Journal: "City hopes to resolve Green Line facility issue before building a soccer stadium at Inner Belt"
"Rail plan offers chance to get back on track" "State planners are at an important stage in the Green Line project, and the location of the maintenance facility is one of three main questions remaining to be answered, along with the nature and placement of a spur to Union Square - which sits near the Fitchburg commuter-rail tracks, not the Lowell…
Somerville News: "Up in the air! It's the city's development future"
Somerville News: "Somerville and the Green Line: Doing our homework - and standing our ground" "It would be extremely counterproductive - and in our view, completely unnecessary - to locate a Green Line maintenance facility in a way that significantly interferes with Somerville's ability to attract urgently-needed, mixed-use development that can expand our commercial tax base and reduce the burden on…
"Whither goes the green line? Medford awaits, debates decision on Route 16 stop" To Ken Krause, stopping short of the Mystic Valley Parkway would be, well, short-sighted. "You get a chance to do something like this once in 100 years," he said recently.
Tufts Daily: "Meeting delayed on the Green Line extension project" A Green Line Extension Project Advisory Group public meeting, scheduled over a month ago for Sept. 15, was called off because project leaders do ânot yet have available all of the information of importance [concerning the] results of the analysis regarding the terminus of the line,â the EOT's project team said…
Somerville Journal: "Not in My Yard 8: Neighbors against state plan to put train shed next door" âI am very much opposed to it,â said Brickbottom artist and resident Heather Van Aelst. âThe specific location will wall off Brickbottom and the Inner Belt area even more than they are now. It will do a lot of harm to the area and…
"Maintenance facility presents obstacle" Steve Mackey, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, said the facility is slated to cover eight to 12 acres in "the heart of the [Inner Belt] district;â a location Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone said "could screw up everythingâ in the Inner Belt's future. âIt's very important that that area is able to capitalize on the Green Line,â…