Green Line Extension Community Meetings

[galadhelsul]

There are going to be community meetings to discuss the green line extension. The first one is tonight at Somerville High School at 6:30pm (open house at 6). More information is available at greenlineextension.org or Blue Mass Group.

Comments

[miraclaire]

are you going to go?

[kvarko]

I feel exhausted just reading your post. Definitely you should go, but for me ... this has been dragging on so long, I don't have the energy anymore (I don't live in Somerville anymore either ... not for several years, which shows how long it's been going on). I hope something comes of it. And I'm glad that there are new people like yourself who are interested in going to such things (i.e. not yet burnt about). If I still lived in Somerville, I really wouldn't have the energy anymore.

That said, I am planning to go to a panel presentation in Waltham this week on "Who makes decision about land use in Waltham?". So I've found my own new issues to be interested in :)

[vfish]

I'm with kvarko on this. For countless years, Somerville has been discussing building the green line extension. At this point, I say "So do it. Either [bleep] or get off the pot."

[kvarko]

I laughed my ass off when a friend once said, at an Esperanto convention, "Feku aŭ forlasu la poton!" (to express a feeling in regards to someone else, who was not present). It still cracks me up :)

[galadhelsul]

Somerville doesn't have enough money to build the extension. The state has to provide the funds. A lawsuit a year or two ago has now forced the state to provide the funds (for environmental reasons related to the big dig). The state has actually put money in some form of the budget to build the green line extension. So the process of actually building it will probably start now. Actual construction will probably not happen for a few more years.