While Medford City officials have worked for more than a decade to remove the MBTA garage from its current Salem Street location due to multiple complaints of noise and pollution from neighbors, a recent state report stating just the opposite has left many perplexed.
Recently a local group involved in transit issues discovered that Ms. Fichter of Mass DOT misrepresented the Haines Square issue in comments she submitted in the annual Green Line SIP report that was released in January. The citizen group submitted comments asking yet again, as city and local legislative officials have in the past, that the Haines Square car barn be moved out of the city as a substitution for the delay in the Green Line.
Ms. Fitchter, in a patronizing and condescending writing style responded with a false answer, stating that there was opposition to moving the Garage. That statement was included in the Mass DOR report. The falsified report has left some questioning whether officials from Mass DOT are working and acting in good faith when they discuss and report transit issues such as the proposed Green Line extension to officials and citizens in the area.
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