Page 3 - Squires Bridge News Today

Starting in mid-September, the stretch of Green Line between Lechmere and Union Square stations will close for more than three weeks so the state transportation department can fix a bridge.

SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - The Union Branch of the Green Line is shutting down starting Sept. 18 to allow for repair work on Squires Bridge,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/officials-announce-25-day-green-line-union-branch-closure-starting-mid-september/">Read More</a>

MBTA service between Lechmere and Union Square will be suspended from Sept. 18 to Oct. 13.

The MBTA announced on Wednesday that the work on the Squires Bridge that will cause the Green Line Extension to close for 25 days, will begin on September 18.

News of the 42-day Green Line Extension shut down previously drew concern and ire from those who live and work in the Somerville area.

A planned closure to part of the Green Line has been put off until September, after officials apparently reconsidered the timing of the project amid the Sumner...

The decision came less than a week after the MBTA announced that service would be suspended for 42 days, starting July 18, on the branch, which opened just over a year ago.

In a reversal, the Gov. Maura Healey administration has announced that the Green Line Extension will actually not be shut down for six weeks in the middle of summer, delaying repairs on a Somerville bridge until September.

The shutdown of the new Green Line Extension for six weeks is "cause for alarm," Somerville state representatives wrote to MassDOT and MBTA this week as they raised several concerns about the service disruption for T riders during the middle of summer.

The Union Square branch of the Green Line will shut down for six weeks this summer, the latest in a series of service diversions that one transit advocate says have been poorly executed by the MBTA.