Public Meeting Tonight - Green Line Extension to Somerville

[bigrock.livejournal.com]

Support your fellow Somervilleians tonight!

Us folks in the Somerville/Medford should all go. Not only is the project needed for Somervile, it is required to be built by 2011 as one of the conditions required to allow the Big Dig to be built.

There will be another important public hearing on the Green Line extension through Somerville on Monday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the Somerville High School Auditorium, 81 Highland Ave. It will be a strain to turn out a large crowd of residents for the third time in four months. But we must do so.

http://www2.townonline.com/somerville/opinion/view.bg?articleid=186793

and some proposed maps :

http://www.somerville-t.com/maps_thumbs.html

Currently, the Green Line ends at Lechmere.

Comments

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

If anyone reading this is thinking they might go, but, uh, watching TV might be more interesting, these thing can be really wild. And incredibly important. If you can go, consider yourself doing a favor for those of us who have to work tonight. Actually I'd be off work in time to get the the second half of it, but I work on Newbury street and taking the Green to the Red to get home takes so damn long I'll miss it.... You can be sure I'm explaining that in a write-in comment.

Here's what our Alderman-at-Large wrote about this:

1) GREEN LINE "COMMITMENT" HEARING TONIGHT!
Why are We Doing This AGAIN?
Tonight's hearing on a possible "substitution" for the promised Green
Line Extension has been so well publicized that writing this notice may
be redundant. Yet the danger exists that too many people will take it
for granted that others will attend, that Somerville has already made
our case, that one more hearing is just one too many. As a friend of
mine remarked the other day, "The tactic of wearing people down does
work, eventually."

So, please remember: the famous October 27 hearing on the Green Line
Extension was held by the MBTA, NOT THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Nor is there a videotape of the 10/27/04 meeting that we can show the
interested state agencies, the Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP) and the Executive Office of Transportation (EOT). Some people were
able to speak at the Gardner Auditorium on Dec. 14, 2004, but it was
nothing like the volume of testimony given to the MBTA in October.