GLX meeting highlights, Oct 23 2017

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I have good news and bad news.

Good news: Construction is underway. Appropriate bids for the next phase came in. MBTA is working on a December 2021 deadline for operation. It sounds like there may actually be the Green Line in the future.

Bad news: The community path is low on their priority list. In this election year, there were a whole bunch of the local pols in the room. And they all heard this and they were all aerated right away. I'll cover a bit more in the longer section, but just so you'll know there was already noise about this and our representatives were engaged.

If you want to sign up for their notices of future meetings on this, go to this site: http://greenlineextension.eot.state.ma.us/ And click the "sign up for email updates".

One piece that has potential to affect us (as WHNA) specifically: they are planning to form "GLX community working groups" around the construction part (they specifically said not design, design is over). And these would be station-specific groups so that the group is in tune with issues in that area. So we should have representation there and someone from our group would be well suited if this is something you are into (I'm looking at you, planning nerds). 

I'll go into a bit more detail below the cut. I'll include the crappy photos I took and they'll take up a lot of space so I don't want to irritate people reading on mobile devices. Click "More" if you care about the gory details.

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