In case you were holding your breath...
...the Green Line Extension isn't going to be here for a while, according to the Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership's Website; information out of a meeting on October 16th:
- The Single Environmental Impact Review is targeted to be approved to proceed in May 2007
- Preliminary design will be complete November 2008
- Final design will be complete May 2011
- Construction will start November 2011
- Green Line service will open December 2014
Service is over eight years away, assuming things stay on schedule. Seems like a pretty long time for a system where, as far as I know, there is an existing right of way with tracks on it, for at least part of the length. But hey, I didn't expect that this would get done in anything close to a reasonable amount of time.
posted by Bats @ 11:15 AM
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I have to say that sounds pretty good, given that for a while the conversation was all:
"Would you like busses?"
"No."
"We can't afford a train."
"We're suing."
"Dude, how about busses?"
"Fuck you."
"Okay, how about one Orange Line stop?"
Heh... good point.
BTW--can you cut through directly from your place to the proposed Lowell Street stop, or do you have to do some roundabout path? According to my mapping software, it's 244 yards from your front door as a straight line. Wow.
Hey, it's good news for you, Bats - plenty of time to pick out a place before the speculators descend trying to snatch up places near the line.
Yeah, it's a pretty long time--unfortunately, it means trying to puzzle out the bus routes for, oh, about a decade or so. Ugh.
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