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"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 “not yet have available all of the information of importance [concerning the] results of the analysis regarding the terminus of the line,” the EOT's project team said…

Somerville Journal: "Not in My Yard 8: Neighbors against state plan to put train shed next door" “I am very much opposed to it,” said Brickbottom artist and resident Heather Van Aelst. “The 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…