Green Line Station Design Group to Meet November 8

Photo by Alexander Svirsky, MassRoads.com

The second meeting of the Green Line Extension Design Working Group will take place on Monday, November 8, at 6 p.m. at a Tufts University building at 51 Winthrop Street in Medford.

The building, the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church at the corner of Boston Avenue, can be reached via MBTA bus routes 80, 94 and 96. Parking is available on Boston Avenue along Capen Street Extension, in the Dowling Parking Garage on Boston Avenue, and surface lots near Miller Hall and Hill Hall (Tufts University buildings).

Minutes, handouts and a video from the first Design Working Group meeting are available on the project website.

The group was formed last June and will advise MassDOT and the MBTA on the design of six new stations proposed for the neighborhoods of Brickbottom, Gilman Square, Lowell Street, Ball Square (Medford/Somerville line), College Avenue (Medford), and Union Square, as well as the relocation of Lechmere Station.

The group will also assist the state transportation agency and the MBTA with issues related to general construction and other community concerns.

Group members will review design plans, gather and share local input, and help plan public station design events, which will begin this fall.

Five Medford residents were appointed Green Line Extension Design Working Group: Doug Carr, Jessica Martin, Julia Prange and Laurel Ruma. City Councilor Fred Dello Russo Jr. also was appointed as a representative of the city.

Somerville and Cambridge residents and Tufts University Community Relations Director Barbara Rubel were also selected as members of the group.

– Information from MassDOT