Green Line Extension
Somerville gets green line
By adamg - 10/20/11 - 10:01 pmGranted, it was made of paper, but no matter: Local residents and officials held a mock groundbreaking tonight for the Green Line extension, now scheduled to arrive in Somerville sometime over the next century or so. The Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership posts photos.
Somerville Board of Alderman Respond to Green Line Delay News Through Resolutions and Orders..
By Courtney - 8/29/11 - 9:25 pmSimilarly to Mayor Joe Curtatone's promise of not taking the news of the Green Line delay "lying down," the Board of Alderman submitted their own resolutions and orders this week surrounding the announcement that has stirred much emotion throughout the city.
Why the T needs to get cracking on the Green Line extension: $760 million in federal funds could be at stake
By adamg - 4/29/11 - 12:56 pmPaul McMorrow explains the rock and the hard place: On the one hand, the T is legally required to extend the Green Line to Somerville and Medford, at a cost now approaching $1 billion. On the other hand, shaky finances and any construction delays could jeopardize $760 million in federal funding for the project, leaving the state to figure out how to make up the difference.
Meeting of the Friends of the Community Path
By rob edwards - 3/9/11 - 1:36 pmMonthly Meeting of the Friends of the Community Path: Thurs, 3/10
Please join us in our efforts to connect the Minuteman Bikeway and Charles River path networks, by extending the Community Path!
Thurs., March 10, 2011
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)
259 Lowell St., 3rd Floor Community Room
Somerville, MA 02144
Please:
* Bring your calendar.
* Pass this announcement on if you can
* Read our Minutes, so you'll know the scoop! Minutes are on this page:
http://pathfriends.org/scp/meetings.html
Thanks!
Friends of the Community Path
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-Community-Path/129724153751066
State: Land deal clears way for Green Line extension, new commuter-rail service, massive development
By adamg - 3/3/11 - 11:33 amMassDOT today announced an agreement to swap land at Lechmere with land by North Station that will lead to a new rail service north and west of Boston - and actual construction of the long stalled North Point development.
Meeting for the Friends of the Community Path in Somerville
By rob edwards - 1/10/11 - 8:21 pmThe Friends of the Community Path are having their monthly meeting this Thursday evening. Come out if you can! The group is advocating for the proposed multi-use path from Somerville to Lechmere station along the new green line extension right-of-way. The info is below:
Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)
259 Lowell St., 3rd Floor Community Room
Somerville, MA 02144
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-Community-Path/129724153751066
The Green Line Revisited
By TheRLeePost - 12/18/10 - 9:05 pmPlease check out this sight on a better alternative to the GLX proposal and saving $705 Million in the process. The Green Line Revisited.
Proposed Alternative to Current GLX
By TheRLeePost - 11/22/10 - 8:16 pmI've done up a multi-page web site on an alternative to the proposed Green Line extension into Somerville and Medford. I'd like to get some feedback, and/or otherwise promote it. The alternative isn't dissing the use of the Green Line, merely making better use of it than the GLX will do. The current price tag for the GLX is a mind boggling, highly exorbitant expenditure for a short extension of a light rail tram in an already owned rail corridor.
There are no words to describe the size of the ripoff that is the GLX. For $10 billion the Swiss bore TWO tunnels, each 30' wide and 35 miles long, yes, 35 MILES, through the mountains, TWO of em. The price tag actually includes another 24 miles of connecting and support tunnels. The tunnels are sized for HIGH SPEED trains to be traveling at well over 160 miles an hour (which is the minimum in the EU for high speed rail).
Mad Duke: Why's the Green Line extension taking so long?
By adamg - 2/5/09 - 7:52 amMike Dukakis, who knows something about the Green Line, cannot believe the snail's pace of the Green Line extension through Somerville and Medford and the reconstruction of the Kenmore Square bus stop:
... In Boston we're in our fifth year of reconstructing Kenmore Square. It's a joke. It’s absurd. They're talking about six years to extend the Green line from Lechmere through Somerville to Tufts on existing railway. Chinese and Irish immigrants were laying four miles of railway a day in 1867.
He also doesn't think much of the Perpetual Kenmore Busway Project. Also click the link to see his thoughts on rebuilding America (and why Amtrak would today be a great service, if only he'd been elected president).
Via CommonWealth Unbound.
Kraft pitches new soccer pitch study for East Somerville
By Kaz - 10/16/08 - 6:11 pmThe Kraft Group would like to move the popular New England MLS franchise, The Revolution, to a new, smaller, soccer stadium in East Somerville. This has worked well for other MLS teams and the location is already under consideration for development as part of the Green Line expansion and repair yard by MBTA officials.
Kraft funded a $150,000 study in June to develop working ideas for the site after contacting the city of Somerville one year ago about where it might be able to locate such a stadium near the largely immigrant populations of Boston that might be some of the team and venue's biggest fans.
One idea to come from the study is to combine the Green Line extension and stadium by placing the stadium in the "air rights" above the proposed repair yard.
