Why is the Commonwealth pursuing an extension of the Green Line to Somerville and Medford?
Decades of planning and analysis have demonstrated that the communities of Somerville and Medford could benefit from improved MBTA service. The municipalities are densely populated, are home to low-income and other communities of concern, and with many residents traveling clearly defined routes into and out of downtown Boston – the sort of trips that the MBTA is able to serve well. They also experience significant automobile congestion and degradation of air quality due to automobile traffic. Among other problems, this makes it difficult for existing MBTA bus services to fully meet the needs of the traveling public, and it limits economic growth in some areas. For all of these reasons, we believe that an extension of the Green Line will greatly benefit the municipalities of Somerville and Medford.
