Public Invited to Comment on Green Line Status Report

Photo by Alexander Svirsky, MassRoads.com.

The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is inviting public comments on the 2011 Status Report for the Green Line Extension, in which state transportation officials announced the project will be delayed from 2015 to between 2018 and 2020.

The DEP is holding public meetings on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at 1PM and 5PM at its offices at One Winter Street, Boston. The meetings will take place in the Washington Street Conference Center, 2nd Floor, Rooms A, B, & C.

Public comments may be presented orally and/or in writing at the public meetings. Written comments will be accepted until 5:00 PM on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Written comments must be submitted to: Kate Fichter at MassDOT, Office of Transportation Planning, Room 4150, Ten Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 or Katherine.fichter@dot.state.ma.us and Jerome Grafe at MassDEP, Bureau of Waste Prevention, Boston, MA 02018 or jerome.grafe@state.ma.us.

After being pushed back one year from 2014 to 2015, the state is now saying the Green Line Extension to Medford and Somerville won’t be completed until between September 2018 and July 2020.

MassDOT and the MBTA announced the delay earlier in the month in the annual Status Report on the Green Line Extension and other Big Dig transit project commitments that must be filed with the state Department of Environmental Protection.

The report says that applying for federal funding has contributed to the delay in the project’s completion.

– InsideMedford.com