Green Line Extension Working Toward Grant, Meeting Slated Next Week
Meeting will be held next week in Medford.
Planners for the Green Line Extension project have been working toward a Federal grant that would fund nearly half of the $1 billion-plus project, and they intend to give an update on its progress next week.
The Green Line Extension Project Team will hold a working group meeting that's open to the publc on Oct. 30, where they will give an update on the progress on grant applications to the Federal Transit Administration's New Starts Program, according to a release from the Department of Transportation.
In June, the state's Department of Transportation announced the Green Line Extension had been added to the master list for the FTA's New Starts program, the first step in potentially winning federal money for the project. New Starts funds a wide range of transportation projects that extend pre-existing systems, including subway, light rail, commuter rail and bus rapid transit systems
The Green Line Extension will extend the MBTA's Green Line from its current terminal station - Lechmere in Cambridge - through Somerville, to a terminal station near the Tufts University campus at the intersection of Boston Avenue and College Avenue in Medford. It is projected to be completed in 2020 and cost $1.3 billion.
Upset
4:36 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Do you know what would be like to have trains going under Boston Ave. every night and early every mornning hours? EARTH QUAKE! DID YOU KNOW THERE GAS STATIONS ALONG THAT STREET! MY WHOLE HOUSE SHOOK WHEN THE BIG TRUCKS GO DOWN AND UP THE STREET! NOT ONLY THAT, IT TURN ON MY HOUSE'S ALARMS "ON" FOR NO REASON AND SO IS MY CELLPHONE THAT SHOOK MY BUTT ! SO WHY DON'T YOU COME AROUND ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS THROUGH MORNNING HOURS,SO THAT I CAN USE
MY BED AS A BED VIBRATOR TO SHARE WITH MY DATE GIRL OR MY FUTURE WIFE !! NOW THE COLLEGE STUDENTS WILL BE GOING MORE CRAZY AND CANNOT BE ABLE TO DO THEIR STUDIES ANYMORE !!
PS
The people of Medford don't want to have their property tax increase because of an underground trains system.
Matt
8:50 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
I assume even with this potential grant, there's still no plan to extend out to the Boston Ave./Mystic Valley Parkway - Rt. 16 intersection? Even though that violates the Big Dig agreement that the Green Line be extended there? Typical Massachusetts and MBTA. Where are you to stand up for and demand this, Reps. Sciortino and Garballey and Sen. Jehlen??