The MBTA's new Green Line expansion to Somerville and Medford is set to open on December 12. The extended subway line is being lauded as a major environmental win.
An MBTA map illustrating the newly added Green Line stops extending past Lechmere station into Somerville and Medford. The expansion is expected to be running and open to the public starting Dec. 12, 2022.
It's taken decades of hearings, legal action, planning, and delays, but the Green Line extension into Medford from Lechmere station in Cambridge is finally becoming a reality.The MBTA projects 45,000 riders a day will use the seven stations on the Green Line Extension by 2030.Staci Rubin, the Vice President of Environmental Justice at Conservation Law Foundation, calls Monday's event ,"a victory 32 years in the making.
The Conservation Law Foundation had filed a lawsuit to force the state to address the increases in traffic and air pollution in conjunction with the Big Dig — the project to place the Central Artery of Interstate-93 underground. The environmental group claimed the massive Public Works project would violateIn 2005, the Foundation took further legal action after the state failed to comply with the original agreement.
Ballantyne also points out that with the new Green Line T stops in Somerville,"nearly the entire city will be within a 12 minute walk of a subway station."The Conservation Law Foundation's Staci Rubin wants the state to meet a commitment made by former Governor Deval Patrick.
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