Green Line Squires Bridge project postponed until September – NECN
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...
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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.