Somerville, Medford to confirm locations of Green Line extension terminus, support facility

From Tufts Daily;

Transportation officials analyzed key features of the T’s Green Line extension project during a public meeting last week, but a recommendation on the line’s terminus likely won’t come until January.

At a Green Line Extension Project Advisory Group meeting last Wednesday, Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) planning officials said that they had selected a possible location for an equipment-support facility and two possible configurations of an extension section that would run near Union Square in Somerville. They also presented a new analysis of the extension’s projected ridership.

The questions of whether to build a new track near Union Square and where in Somerville to locate the support facility remain two of the biggest debates currently facing state transportation planners.

In Medford, transportation officials are still focusing on where the Green Line will end, with two terminus sites along Boston Avenue under consideration. The first possibility is located along the commuter rail tracks by Tufts’ Curtis Hall, the building that houses Brown and Brew, and the second at the intersection of the Mystic Valley Parkway (Route 16) and Boston Avenue.

Full article at Tufts Daily