Lawsuit over Blue Line / Red Line Connection

Call it weaseling out if you will, but the Green Line extensions to Somerville and Medford and the Fairmount Line upgrade are a much better investment than either the Blue-Red Line connection or the Arborway restoration. There is only a limited amount of money for these capital projects.

JD

No, I know, that would give much more ridership, stick more cars in the downtown subway wont ya?

Now, if they called it the 'A' line, it might make some of us happy heh

RailBus63 wrote:Call it weaseling out if you will, but the Green Line extensions to Somerville and Medford and the Fairmount Line upgrade are a much better investment than either the Blue-Red Line connection or the Arborway restoration. There is only a limited amount of money for these capital projects.

JD

In terms of getting cars off the road, correct. But that should not be the #1 or even the #2 goal of transit.

that said, I'm very much against arborway and very much for west medford. Fairmount could be done a lot better though. make it more than frequent commuter rail.

CJ wrote:Well, hopefully partners files that lawsuit soon, as it would seem via there argument that they invested quite a bit for a blue-red link, and now there is becoming nothing of it after those $*&Y&YT&*YT @ the T weasled out of 2 projects, and those damn enviromentalists agreed!

To what environmentalists, exactly, are you referring?

Well, the Department of Enviormental Protection, not the enviromentalists per-se.

CJ wrote:Well, the Department of Enviormental Protection, not the enviromentalists per-se.

Calling them environmentalists is akin to suggesting that the EPA under Bush is actually an agency involved in environmental protection.

hahaha, well the true tree huggers would want us to walk all around the harbor, because cutting thru it would disturb the fungae

RailBus63 wrote:Call it weaseling out if you will, but the Green Line extensions to Somerville and Medford and the Fairmount Line upgrade are a much better investment than either the Blue-Red Line connection or the Arborway restoration. There is only a limited amount of money for these capital projects.

JD

Hasn't the "T" and the state went ahead with plans to extend the green line out to Medford? I heard this a while ago.