GLX project will move forward, scaled down and with conditions

[fefie.livejournal.com]

Summary of today's MassDOT Board and MBTA Fiscal and Management
Control Board meetings regarding the future of the Creen Line Extension project on Wicked Local Somerville:
http://somerville.wickedlocal.com/news/20160509/glx-gets-crucial-go-ahead-vote-but-with-strict-conditions

The presentation + full report given to the MassDOT Board and MBTA Fiscal and Management
Control Board by the interim GLX team:

http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/GLXReviewFinalPresentation05082016.pdf

http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/GLXBOARDREPORTFINALv2.pdf

Comments

[daviscubed.livejournal.com]

The "conditions" still seem pretty major to me. Like "We got the deficit down from 1 billion to 70 million, but we don't know where the other 70 million is going to come from." It shouldn't be a showstopper, but that gap allows someone who wants to squash it to do so, doesn't it?