What is happening with the Green Line extensions?
As printed in the Somerville Journal… In short, we are back on track. There will be an important public meeting next Monday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. in the Somerville High School auditorium at 93 Highland Ave. At this meeting, the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act office will collect comments to be used in helping them determine what should be in the Single Environmental Impact Report for the Green Line extensions that will be prepared over the next two years. The SEIR will become the full and official description of this long-awaited transit project. Simply put, Monday’s MEPA “Scoping Session” will determine what is studied and then presented in the Single EIR for the project and what is not. For months, people have been asking what is happening with the planned extensions of the Green Line to Union Square and along the Lowell line through Somerville to Medford. The good news is that the project is now moving to its next phase. We want to work closely with the Executive Office of Tr
