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Green Line extension hearing: Oct 16, 6pm Somerville High

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I learned about this upcoming meeting from Denise Provost’s newsletter today (quoting below):

A) Real progress, hearing, on Green Line extension!

Even before I was sworn in as State Representative, I was attending meetings with the rest of our state delegation to press for real  progress on the Green Line Extension through Somerville. So far, that progress has been slow – often frustratingly slow – and practically invisible. That picture is about to change.

The Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) is filing an Expanded Environmental Notification Form (EENF) for the Green Line Extension project with the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Act (MEPA) unit of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). Notice of the EENF will be published in the Environmental Monitor on Tuesday, October 10, 2006. This filing initiates the mandatory environmental planning process for the project, to which EOT has committed $2.2 million in funding.

There will be a public hearing on the environmental review and planning process on Monday, October 16, from 6-8pm, in the Somerville High Auditorium. 

EOT has also committed to facilitating the land use planning for the corridor in which the Green Line Extension will be built, but has yet to provide a timeframe for that process.

Please show up to hear it.  Wear green. 

Denise Provost newsletter portion credit:  http://www.provost-c…

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  1. I’m a fan, I hope they get this done soon.  But realistically, I may be dead by the time we see the extension. 

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    I’d also like them to bring back the JP line too. 

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    Did I hear “Urban Ring?”

    • I support public transportation in almost all forms.  More trains.  More light rail.  Less cars….in any possible manner.

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      And we may both be dead by the time this runs, I know. 

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      But my favorite expression is: We’re Somerville, we’re dense! copyright mem from somerville. Not widely popular, but does make some people laugh.

      Wikipedia: With only slightly over 4 square miles (10 km²) of land, it is the most densely populated city in New England and the fifth densest city in the United States after Union City, Hoboken, and Passaic, New Jersey, and New York City.

      • out of “Slummerville.”

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        And I used to brag to out-of-towners about how Somerville was considered the most densely populated town on the East Coast.

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