Contest for Gilman Square station area design
Interactive Somerville is holding a Green Line Challenge, encouraging anyone to "come up with the best idea to improve the area where the Homans Building is currently located." Learn more.
Interactive Somerville is holding a Green Line Challenge, encouraging anyone to "come up with the best idea to improve the area where the Homans Building is currently located." Learn more.
Medford Patch: "Route 16 Green Line Station Vision Presented to City Council, Residents Air Opinions" Medford City Councilors were shown how the area around Boston Avenue and Mystic Valley Parkway could be redeveloped if the Green Line were brought there.
The new map includes the most recent station plans and 3D renderings, plus new photos of the station areas. Explore the map.
The MBTA has released new renderings of what the Assembly Square station might look like when it opens in the fall of 2014. To learn more, come to the public meeting on Tuesday. To see more images, keep reading.
Topics included the Mystic Valley Parkway Planning Process, STEP's position on the GLX Federal Environmental Assessment, and interim offset projects. Meeting notes (PDF)
Powerpoint Presentation from the Final Green Line Extension Community Visioning Process Meeting on 11.2.11 View more presentations from Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Medford Transcript: "Medford residents get first view of Green Line station at Boston Avenue" Around 100 concerned citizens packed City Hall last week to voice support, skepticism and outright opposition to a "community vision" plan for the area surrounding a proposed Green Line station in Medford. Medford Patch: "Green Line Extension Phase 2 Up to Communities Now" Boston Globe: "Medford residents…
"Moving Forward with Funding: New strategies to support transportation and balanced regional economic growth," from MassINC, proposes new funding mechanisms for transit (and possibly also roads and bridges) that aim to break the political logjam created by the belief that the rest of the state is unfairly being asked to pay for Boston's Big Dig and MBTA. By raising revenue within…
Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA) has released "MAXED OUT: Massachusetts Transportation at a Financing Crossroad." The overview is straightforward: "The people and economy of Massachusetts depend upon the state's network of rails and roads, but the transportation system is living largely on borrowed time and borrowed money. Faced with a crushing burden of debt, the system lacks the revenue to maintain its…
"Doubts raised about transit project funding" "We're going to have to think about how we build this project with federal support and without federal support," Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Richard A. Davey said. "Without federal support, it becomes that much more challenging."