.MBTA officials are aiming to complete the Green Line Extension this summer. So, what's next? Our readers weighed in on where they think the next big T expansion should go.
This was actually part of the original Green Line Extension plan : extend the Medford branch past Tufts along the Lowell commuter rail line to Route 16/the Mystic Valley Parkway.
MBTA officials are still eyeing this extension — which would connect West Medford to the rapid transit system — as part of"We in Medford were promised a green line at Route 16 and we are still waiting," Jaye Raye wrote."It was part of a deal. I lived in Porter Square when they added a T stop there. It transformed that neighborhood."
During a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, as well as her predecessor, Joe Curtatone, lent their support to the idea — even garneringSeveral readers also suggested extending the Green Line from Union Square to link up with the Red Line and commuter rail at Porter Square. MBTA documents
a Porter Square extension is possible, though officials have been mum on the subject. The idea was also mentioned Monday by Ballantyne and Curtatone, though it got a more muted response from Baker.Connecting the Blue Line to the Red Line at the Charles/MGH station is"Whatever it takes, that connection needs to be made to a much modernized and genuinely [handicap] accessible Charles Station," Astyk wrote.
Several readers called for the Blue Line to be extended from Revere to Lynn, an idea state officials and lawmakers have
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