Greenline

[pakoo.livejournal.com]

From The Boston Globe:

New Green Line stations are delayed until 2021

The delay for the seven new stations for the Green Line extension into Somerville and Medford pushes the project back yet again.

Comments

[turil.livejournal.com]

I think they mean:

New Green Line Stations are delayed until we can delay them again, and again, and again, or until the old-fashioned, centralized, big government comes crashing down, and we regular humans start just doing it ourselves. :P

It's a bummer

[zachinaround.livejournal.com]

But with the hiring of this new project manager there's much more reason to be optimistic. It also gives them more time to appropriately staff the project with a dedicated team, and I think the new pm has the credentials to properly vet candidates. That said, I know I am looking at this through glasses of a very rosy shade.

[somervilleguy.livejournal.com]

This is interesting since they seem to be pushing ahead with the Union Square station. The "open field" across from Dunkin Donuts is being worked on for the first time since last year. I would guess that the line won't open until all the stations are done but it looks like the far eastern ones will be ready sooner?

[tober.livejournal.com]

Somebody else may have more authoritative/current information on this topic, but my understanding is that all state contracts directly related to the GLX that were not yet in progress at the time they discovered the anticipated cost overruns and placed the program on hold are still not proceeding. This work may have already been in progress at the time such that suspending it would have either been impractical or involved the state having to pay significant penalties. Alternately, it may be being done under the auspices of the City of Somerville and not the state or it may be (to the extent that it consists of e.g. access improvements) being done in anticipation of the GLX but not actually part of the GLX proper. If you and I are thinking of the same site (near the corner of Somerville Ave and Prospect), there's a sign there referring to the project as "Early Action Improvements" or something very similar, this is probably not formally part of the GLX project as such.

[fefie.livejournal.com]

I guess the newly announced delay from 2020 to 2021 was not much of a surprise to me as work on the project has been on hold for over a year. The irony (or, at least one of many ironies of this project) is that GLX was originally supposed to be done in 2011, so this means it will be completed 10 yrs after the originally planned deadline.

A summary of the GLX meeting the other night at SHS (at which the new completion date was announced) can be found here:

http://www.somervillestep.org/new-date-for-the-ever-delayed-green-line-extension-2021/

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I think they're staffed by Muslims.