Green Line Extension Hearing on Dec 21

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Apparently the Green Line extension is not a done deal.

Received from Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership (redundantly abbreviated as Somerville STEP) :

Please attend one of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Public Hearings on Wednesday December 21st and/or send written comments by January 17th to ensure that the Green Line Extensions move forward as soon as possible.

Hearings: Wednesday, December 21st at 10 AM or 6 PM at the DEP Offices, One Winter Street, 2nd Floor, at Downtown Crossing in Boston. Easily reached by Red & Orange Lines or a short walk from Green Line at Park.


In May 2005 the state agreed to extend the Green Line along two branches - one to Union Square and another in the Lowell Line right-of-way through Somerville to Medford - as part of its Transit Commitments obligation under the Ozone State Implementation Plan (SIP). But the Ozone SIP must be formally modified by Massachusetts DEP to include these projects and then be accepted by US EPA before they will be on track.

The DEP hearings seek to know if the public supports proposed changes in the regulations.

Written comments will also be accepted at DEP until January 17th, 2006:
Submit via Email to: christine.kirby@state.ma.us
Send via US Mail to: Christine Kirby, Department of Environmental
Protection, Bureau of Waste Prevention, One Winter Street, 10th Floor,
Boston, MA 02108

There is also a lot more info on STEP's web site.