About This ProjectGreen Line Extension Project
The Green Line Extension project is an initiative of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), which is coordinating the project with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The project will extend existing MBTA Green Line service from Lechmere Station through the northwest Boston corridor communities of Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford, with an extension of the main line to College Avenue in Medford and a spur line to Union Square in Somerville. The project will increase mobility, encourage public transit usage, improve regional air quality, ensure a more equitable distribution of transit services, and support opportunities for sustainable growth in the corridor municipalities.
The Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the project was filed with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office on June 15, 2010. Please click here to download the document.
Copies of the FEIR are also available in libraries in the Green Line Extension communities and at the Commonwealth libraries:
- State Library of Massachusetts
- State Transportation Library
- Somerville Public Library – Central Library
- Somerville Public Library – East Branch
- Somerville Public Library – West Branch
- Cambridge Public Library – Boudreau Branch
- Cambridge Public Library – Central Square Branch
- Cambridge Public Library – Collins Branch
- Cambridge Public Library – O'Connell Branch
- Cambridge Public Library – O'Neill Branch
- Cambridge Public Library – Valente Branch
- Medford Public Library
Copies are also available by request from Regan Checchio by phone at 617 357 5772 x 14 or by email.
A public meeting on the document will be held on Wednesday, June 30th at 6 PM at the Somerville High School Auditorium. The meeting will provide an opportunity for members of the public, agency representatives, and other project stakeholders to learn about changes to the project and ask questions.
Comments on the FEIR must be submitted in writing to the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs through the Commonwealth's MEPA process in order to be considered.
All written comments must be submitted by the deadline to:
Secretary Ian Bowles
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
MEPA Office
Attn: Holly Johnson, MEPA Analyst
EEA #13886
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900
Boston, MA 02114
Fax: 617-626-1181
Email: Holly.S.Johnson@state.ma.us
Comments must be received no later than July 23, 2010.
WHAT'S NEW?
Thanks to everyone who participated in the recent series of land use planning workshops associated with the Green Line Extension.
The Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the project was filed with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office on June 15, 2010. Please click here to download the document.
Please click here for a copy of the latest project fact sheet.
Please click here for a list of the members of the Green Line Extension Design Working Group.
If you need any special accommodation – either for meetings or the format of project materials – please contact Regan Checchio by email or phone at 617-357-5772 x14.
TTY: 617-973-7306.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the recent series of land use planning workshops associated with the Green Line Extension.
The Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the project was filed with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office on June 15, 2010. Please click here to download the document.
Please click here for a copy of the latest project fact sheet.
Please click here for a list of the members of the Green Line Extension Design Working Group.
If you need any special accommodation – either for meetings or the format of project materials – please contact Regan Checchio by email or phone at 617-357-5772 x14.
TTY: 617-973-7306.
