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Schedule for Green Line extension slips again

The Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership provides the good news/bad news update on extending the Green Line through Somerville: The good news is that design work for the Lechmere, Washington Street and Union Square stations is now 90% done. The bad news is that several more months have been added to the schedule for actually running trains to those stations.

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Complete with schedule slips and cost increases!

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IT IS DELAYED BECAUSE OF COST OVERRUNS ON THE BIG DIG.

Please, just drive somewhere far away.

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most days, still?

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Then it will be the big dig of rail.

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While part of my mind can imagine seeing the number of planning details in the meeting notes that it can get delayed. This is just frustrating. From my perspective, I can recall first reading about it when I was still a high schooler. I went through college with an ironic thought (though I'm cynical enough that it probably going to be delayed, of course it didn't) that I might see it open just as a graduate. And now it going to "open" when I'm in my 30's.

But in a less self-absorbed point of view, how does 10 years pass and real construction have not started yet?

This is like Nuclear Fusion power research - no matter how much times passes, it's always "just more 5 years away"

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Real construction has started. Take a look along the Lowell Line right of way sometime.

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Yeah... some bridges that they needed to replace or let it collapse. Let me know when they actually pushing some dirt around the planned stations, moving the old commuter rail tracks, and putting new tracks the train will actually run on.

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> pushing some dirt around the planned stations

http://www.somervillema.gov/news/union-sq-green-line-site-work-begins

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Again, have you looked recently? They have built retaining walls, which serve no purpose other than to hold up where the tracks will go, and have graded the right of way significantly.

And those bridges they replaced? Yes, they needed to be replaced anyway, but the replacements include beds for the green line tracks.

Not to mention all the utility relocations that have been ongoing, and the geotech boring.

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While I view the real construction is the "Phase 2" construction. If one stops at Phase 1, it just looks like a bunch of maintenance work with some future-proofing attached. Not to mention the feeling of exasperation how much time has past and yet there's still so much more to go. And that just going by my own timeline, officially this idea was proposed much earlier then when I first learned of it.

In short, after all these years, this is how far we got.

But by the criteria I set, the work is more than just the bridges. So will concede that "real construction" has started. I still wish we are far down the process then we are.

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Lend the railroad.net people some heavy equipment and building materials. The project would be finished in 6 months.

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Hard to get people in there without a shrink ray.

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They'd "accidentally" run the line to Porter and add two sets of tracks from Packard's Corner to Watertown "for maintenance access".

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