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City council to hold hearing on 'temporary' Arborway bus yard
By adamg on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:01pm
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the City Council's Environment and Health Committee will hold a hearing on June 13 to press the MBTA to replace the allegedly temporary bus facility for which the T has been planning a replacement since 1998.
The committee is chaired by JP's own Councilor Matt O'Malley. In April, the T didn't include a proposed $200 million overhaul in its five-year capital plan. In addition to a new bus-maintenance facility, the proposal would have turned part of the current site - used as a trolley yard until the T "temporarily" halted Arborway trolley service in the mid-1980s - into parkland and new residential and retail space.
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Comments
Those sarcasm quotes do me
Those sarcasm quotes do me proud, AG.
i miss the thrill of old PCC
i miss the thrill of old PCC cars when some Masshole driver would try to beat the train and loose. Unlike our modern Light Rail Vehicles, the coupling at the front of those streetcars were not kind to miscreant drivers.
In light of state budget woes, perhaps spending $200 million to add more parkland to JP might be put on the burner. Is there any neighborhood that has had more money spent on creating green space than JP?
Perhaps that future money could be allocated to help purchase some new orange and red line cars?