Entire Green Line extension won't be completed on time after all
By adamg - Sat, 07/18/2009 - 9:47am.
Inside Medford reports state offficials are now saying only most of the project will be finished by the 2014 deadline, due to "funding requirements and the economic crisis." Left for an unspecified "shortly thereafter" is the Rte. 16 stop.
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No! You don't say!
Well, I'll be!
This must be a first!
Inconceivable!
I'll be a monkey's uncle!
Fuggedaboutit!
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Interesting concidence that the part that is not
going to be finished on time is the Route 16 stop - the one that the Medford opponents of the project don't want.
As for the alleged lack of money, perhaps if they haven't been squandering funds and wasting time on all those "necessary" public workshops and ongoing environmental studies, the project would be under construction now.
After all, a century ago, that's what people did. They identified a need for a transit line or other public improvement, and THEY BUILT IT.
Sure in the old days stuff
Sure in the old days stuff used to be built all over the Boston area without consulting the communities or doing enviromental studies. In fact entire neighborhoods were wiped out. In Somerville we got I93 a lot of life-threatening vehicle pollution as a result.
As a Somerville resident who went to those '"necessary" public workshops', I'd say they were indeed necessary and not "squandering". Environmental studies and public workshops are done now because we know they are important.
"Alleged" lack of money?? There is no committed funding at the moment.