Another big event for this week: The second branch of the Green Line Extension project opened last Monday. Feels a bit unreal.
It really is a big deal, though. It's the most significant expansion of MBTA service since the extension of the Red Line to Alewife in 1985. It's been in the works since 2006 (formal start of planning for the project) and a dream for a century in the minds of Boston transit planners.
And it's particularly significant for my own town of Somerville, it brings a huge percent of Somerville within walking distance of light rail and makes Somerville perhaps even better transit-connected than Cambridge. At the very least, we now have seven T stops (Davis, Assembly, Union, East Somerville, Gilman, Magoun, Ball) to Cambridge's six (Kendall, Central, Harvard, Porter, Alewife, Lechmere).
So much is possible, let's not take quite so many decades next time!
It really is a big deal, though. It's the most significant expansion of MBTA service since the extension of the Red Line to Alewife in 1985. It's been in the works since 2006 (formal start of planning for the project) and a dream for a century in the minds of Boston transit planners.
And it's particularly significant for my own town of Somerville, it brings a huge percent of Somerville within walking distance of light rail and makes Somerville perhaps even better transit-connected than Cambridge. At the very least, we now have seven T stops (Davis, Assembly, Union, East Somerville, Gilman, Magoun, Ball) to Cambridge's six (Kendall, Central, Harvard, Porter, Alewife, Lechmere).
So much is possible, let's not take quite so many decades next time!