It must be awful having to walk to a bus stop and take a bus to the Orange Line at Sullivan or Lechmere or Wellington. Perhaps we can hear from the poor souls who have to walk or take the bus to the Red Line at Porter Square or Davis Square.
Botton line, if a the green line is extended to Union Square and Ball Square how much extra time will these commuters get to sleep each morning?
Please share widely!
Christopher says
…have we seen EB3 find a topic on which to base a post a day:(
bob-gardner says
Mistah Ernie, he . . . well not dead, but that horse he’s beating sure is.
Bob Neer says
Obviously. That’s one of the key reasons to build a mass transit system: mobility creates economic opportunity and wealth. Just look at property values and economic development in Harvard Square, Porter Square, Davis Square and Alewife over the past 30 years since the Red Line extension, and compare those areas to Arlington, which kept its cars and buses. But the MBTA has to be restructured to be successful, otherwise it will continue its decades-long decline with or without a trolley line into Somerville.
JimC says
We should extend the Red Line into Arlington. Right now it stops at Arlington’s Cambridge border. And property is dirt cheap in Arlington.
While we’re at it we should push on through to Lexington and Concord.
Christopher says
(Yes, I know he didn’t quite make it.)