College Ave Green Line Station Meeting June 25th

Photo by Alexander Svirsky, MassRoads.com.

MassDOT and the MBTA are hosting two public meetings in June to provide an update on the design of two of the planned stations for the Green Line Extension (GLX) project, according to information recently released by the state. On June 25 a public meeting about the College Avenue Station will be held from 6-8PM at St. Clement School, 579 Boston Avenue. A meeting is also taking place on June 16 about the Lowell Street & Gilman Square Stations. That meeting is taking place at the Center for the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue in Somerville.

The federal government has agreed to contribute nearly $1 billion to extend the Green Line to Medford and Somerville. The money will cover around forty percent of the total cost of the project, which is now expected to top $2 billion. Construction has already begun, including a partial demolition of the Harvard Street Rail Bridge in Medford.

According to The Boston Globe, the latest completion date for the project is 2020.

Currently, two stations are planned for Medford, one in Ball Square on the Medford/Somerville line and another in the Medford Hillside neighborhood on College Avenue. The once $600 million project is now estimated to cost over $2 billion. And that’s just for six planned stops. The seventh, a stop at Route 16, could cost another $130 million, pushing the total cost of the project to over $2 billion.

– InsideMedford.com