Somerville Journal: "Somerville's Café Belo celebrates new exhibit, 'New Train Stops in Somerville'" On Tuesday, Oct. 20, residents can enjoy free appetizers at Café Belo, one of many businesses next to one of the seven new Green Line train stations in Somerville. People will hear stories about how the Red Line changed the city 30 years ago and talk about how…
Somerville Journal: "Somerville's Café Belo celebrates new exhibit, 'New Train Stops in Somerville'" On Tuesday, Oct. 20, residents can enjoy free appetizers at Café Belo, one of many businesses next to one of the seven new Green Line train stations in Somerville. People will hear stories about how the Red Line changed the city 30 years ago and talk about how…
What will the Green Line mean for these squares and the rest of Somerville? Watch the video from WCVB.
Given the extraordinary shortage of state transportation funds relative to needed projects, Somerville has fared very well in the Boston MPO transportation plans voted today. We are fortunate to finally have the Green Line Extension listed in both the Amended Regional Transportation Plan â at over $1 billion â and in the 2010-2013 Transportation Improvement Program â at quick glance about $671 million of project expenditure between October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2013.
Somerville Journal: "Urban Ring bus route and I-93, Mystic Avenue improvement projects scrapped due to Regional Transportation Plan cuts" âWe take no pleasure in the dramatic cutbacks included in the new Regional Transportation Plan, but they represent a realistic assessment of funds currently available, and likely to be available in future years,â said Draisen who also serves as vice chairman of…
State Representative Denise Provost reports... EOT has not proposed to amend its project completion deadline, which remains December 31, 2014. EOT is, however, pushing back an important internal project deadline, the filing of its Environmental Impact Report/ Environmental Assessment (EIR/EA). In its July, 2009 RTA amendment, EOT said it would make this filing in August, 2009 Â but it did not.…
The draft TIP (PDF) outlines all significant transportation projects for the next several years, and the Green Line (and its funding) aren't in it. Nor are they in the Draft State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). It is critical that the Green Line be added to these documents. Send them a quick message before Sept 22.
Tufts Daily: "$65 million influx boosts prospects for development in Assembly Sq. area" $25 million dollars are exclusively earmarked for the development of the new T stop, according to Mayor Curtatone.
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…