Green Line Meeting for January 15 Cancelled
A Green Line Train at Cleveland Circle. Photo by Alexander Svirsky.
Officials: Project Still on Time for 2014
Story Updated 6:04PM, Sunday, January 18, 2009
A Green Line Extension Project Advisory Group meeting scheduled for January 15 has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 3.
The meeting will take place from 4-6PM at St. Clement’s New Parish Hall, 579 Boston Avenue, Medford.
Officials are expected to announce the final station locations for the Green Line in Somerville and Medford, including where the line will end in Medford.
According to project spokesperson Regan Checchio, the meeting postponement will not impact the 2014 completion date of the project. Checchio said transportation officials did not yet have all of the information they needed to determine a terminus for the project.
At the last project advisory group meeting in November, officials said they expected 30,000 people to use the Green Line in Medford and Somerville everyday.
Three potential stations have been proposed for Medford- just over the Medford/Somerville line near Broadway by Ball Square, somewhere between College Avenue and Winthrop Street adjacent to Boston Avenue, and at Route 16 by the UHaul and Cummings Park properties.
The stations locations are not definite and project managers are still examining ridership, cost, and environmental impact, among other factors, before making a decision.
Currently, the line could end at College Avenue in Medford or at Route 16.
– InsideMedford.com
Banker & Tradesman (1/12/09) reports that NorthPoint funding has fallen through and that NorthPoint funding is “critical to the planned MBTA Green Line extension”
The B&T report contradicts project spokesman Checchio and suggests that there are serious problems with this project.
EOT just today released a report to the Department of Environmental Projection, revealing four new “schedule concerns” that have arisen since it filed its Annual Status Report on the project last July, in which it stated that the project was on schedule for completion by Dec. 31, 2014, as required by law. More information, and a link to the EOT’s report, is available on the Medford Green Line Neighborhood Alliance website, http://www.medfordgreenline.org.