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Via GLX announcements email:

Notice of Green Line Extension (GLX) Project Public Meeting

Please join the GLX project team for a general project update. This presentation will feature a visual tour of the project showing the latest progress on construction activities.

The meeting will be held via a Zoom webinar.
 
When: Dec 9, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
 
Topic: GLX Public Meeting - General Project Update
Register in advance for this webinar:
 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
 
For more information on GLX visit
www.mass.gov/glx
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Via STEP: https://www.somervillestep.org/online-public-green-line-meeting/


Wednesday, June 24, 5:30-7 pm
Register here

GLX project officials will make information available on:
* Project Overview and Benefits
* Construction Update and Look-Ahead
* Work Forecast, Locations, and Hours of Operation
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Here's a summary from Streetsblog. A key piece of this that didn't come out of the meeting at city hall was the part about the MBTA wanting to potentially work with the city on new strategies due to the city's willingness to make changes. 

Early Data Show Less Traffic, More Bus Riders On Broadway In Somerville

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2019/12/10/early-data-shows-less-traffic-more-bus-riders-on-somervilles-new-bus-lanes/

A copy of Brad Rawson's slides is available here: https://www.slideshare.net/mem_somerville/2019-12-09-winter-hill-in-motion-public-hearing


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Via GLX email:

Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6:30 to 8:00 PM

East Somerville Community School Cafeteria
50 Cross Street
Somerville, MA 02145

- Parking is limited ... Consider taking the MBTA #80 or #90 bus to Cross St. @ Pearl St.


Update: I hear from another mailing list that there's also a bake sale. Bring some cash to support them:

NOTE: Bake Sale!  The Somerville Community School PTA is hosting a bake sale at the meeting, with sweet and savory items and soft drinks. They take cash, credit and Venmo. They'll also be selling their Somerville "Everyone is Welcome Here" t-shirts and water bottles, at a slightly lower price than they are online: 
 
 
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Via Ellin Reisner:

The community meeting on the Health Impact Assessment and Noise barrier update will be on Tuesday, October 23.  
 
Info below and on attached flyer.  PLEASE FORWARD.
 
What:  Community Meeting -- Update on Sound Walls to Reduce Noise and Air Pollution along I-93 in Somerville
 
When:  Tuesday, Oct 23, 2018, 6 – 8 pm (free pizza & drinks)
 
Where:  Cross Street Senior Center, 165 Broadway, East Somerville 
 
Contact:  Ellin Reisner reisner51@gmail.com | 617-776-1987 and visit http://sites.tufts.edu/cafeh/
 
Thanks,
 
Ellin

PS from Mary: I have the flyer via email but can't attach it here. Let me know if you want me to forward it to you.

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UPDATE: 

OCTOBER 2nd COMMUNITY MEETING ON NOISE AND AIR POLLUTION UPDATES IS BEING RESCHEDULED.

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PLANNED OCTOBER 2nd COMMUNITY MEETING ON NOISE AND AIR POLLUTION UPDATES IS BEING RESCHEDULED.

THE COMMUNITY ROOM IN THE PUBLIC STORAGE BUILDING IS NOT ACCESSIBLE DUE TO FACILITY PROBLEMS.  

WE WILL NOTIFY YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OF THE NEW DATE AND LOCATION.  WE ARE SORRY FOR THE LATE ANNOUNCEMENT.

IF YOU HAVE FORWARDED INFORMATION ABOUT THE OCTOBER 2 MEETING, CAN YOU PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE.



Via Ellie Reisner email:

The CAFEH team, STEP, The Welcome Project, MAPC and Tufts University are holding a meeting on October 2 to provide updates on the Health Impact Assessment and noise testing work we have been doing over the summer. We invite you to attend and to send out the attached meeting invitation to your contact lists. It is attached in both PDF and MSWord format. If you can use translated copies of the meeting flyer (Spanish, Portuguese & Haitian Creole) let me know and I will send it to you.

Information will be provided and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Contact me [Ellie] if you have any questions.



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Noise and Air Pollution Near the Highway in Somerville
What can we do to protect our health?

When I-93 was built in the 1970’s the state was supposed to build sound walls along the highway. It never happened.

What: Community Meeting -- Update on Sound Walls to Reduce Noise and Air Pollution along I-93 in Somerville

When: Tuesday, Oct 2, 2018, 6 – 8 pm (free pizza & drinks)

Where: Community Assembly Room, Assembly Square 50 Middlesex Avenue, Somerville (behind the Kmart store)

Contact: Ellin Reisner reisner51@gmail.com | 617-776-1987 and visit http://sites.tufts.edu/cafeh/

Organizers: Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership (STEP); The Welcome Project; Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Tufts University, Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health Study (CAFEH)

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This is kind of cool. Watch crews remove the lion medallion over the door of the Homan's building in Gilman Square, for the Green Line construction. 

https://twitter.com/AboveSummit/status/1042493615661109250

More details/photos: https://www.universalhub.com/2018/lion-saving-somerville

And more details about Monarch Foods, the company that had the lion logo, and hence the lion on the building: https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/2016/2/1/Monarch-Cocoa-by-Reid-Murdoch-and-Co-1920s

And yet another story: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/09/20/green-line-extension-rolls-somerville-lions-head-will-live/

 
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Via the Resistat newsletter:

Although we don't have the exact timeline yet, we know the first bridge closure associated with Green Line Extension work is coming later this year for the Broadway Bridge. The good news is that this closure will allow work to happen that brings us even close to a finished GLX (which, by the way, will put the majority of Somerville within a quarter mile of a T stop). The not-so-good news is that the Broadway Bridge closure will have some major impacts on the Ball Square and Magoun Square neighborhoods.
 

Come learn more about the upcoming work and ask questions at a community meeting planned for Wednesday, August 29, at 6 p.m., at the Somerville Community Baptist Church, 31 College Ave.
 
Can't make the meeting? There are still plenty of ways to stay informed about GLX work, including:

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Via email from MassDOT:

Friends,
 
 
Please join the Green Line Extension (GLX) project team for a public meeting:
 
 
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
6:30 to 8:00 PM

 
Medford City Hall - Council Chambers
85 George P. Hassett Drive, 2nd Floor
Medford, MA 02155
 
 
The purpose of the meeting is to provide general updates on:
  • Traffic detours due to bridge closures beginning this fall
  • The Community Path concept
  • Construction activity and outlook
For more information on the GLX project, please visit www.greenlineextension.org
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Another find on reddit--I never heard about this anywhere else. Original entry (can find redacted emails there): https://redd.it/8s5ave

Community Meeting – Sound Walls to Reduce Noise and Air Pollution along I-93 in Somerville
 
 
Monday, June 25, 2018, 6 – 8 pm (free pizza & drinks)
 
Community Assembly Room, Assembly Square
 
50 Middlesex Avenue, Somerville (behind the Kmart store)
 
 
Contact: Ellin Reisner [reisner51@[redacted]]  | 617-776-1987 and visit http://sites.tufts.edu/cafeh/
 
Background info:
 
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When I-93 was built in the 1970’s the state was supposed to build sound walls along the highway. It never happened.
 

What can you do to help?
 
Help us Measure Noise along I-93 in Somerville to determine if we need sound walls and where to put them.
Get involved in the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to collect and share information about sound walls along I-93.

Attend Community Meetings to learn about:
Proposal to build sound walls along I-93 in Somerville
Research on how people’s health is affected by near highway air pollution along I-93 in Somerville
History of I-93 in Somerville
Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

Your questions and concerns
Organizers: Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership (STEP); The Welcome Project; Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Tufts University, Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health Study (CAFEH)
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I just heard about these on Reddit--not clear to me who runs these. 

Source: https://redd.it/8fnii8

 ---- Forwarded message ---------

From: Ryan Dunn from the GLXWorkinggroup

Subject: Magoun Square Station Info

There will be info meetups just steps from the site of the future Magoun Square Green Line station on Tuesday, May 15 at 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 20 at 10 a.m. We'll meet at Maxwell's Green. This will be a good opportunity to learn about the project and share ideas about the future of our neighborhood.

UPDATE: I got more info from Mark Niedergang's newsletter. 

Magoun Square Green Line Extension station meetups, Tues., May 15, 6 PM and Sun., May 20, 10 AM at Maxwell’s Green outside in the green space, with Ryan Dunn, Magoun Square (Lowell Street) station representative to the GLX  Community Working Group
 
Here is what Ryan Dunn wrote: “I am the Magoun Sq. station area rep to the GLX Community Working Group - a joint community/MBTA effort to inform the public about the Green Line Extension project and address public concerns. There are upcoming info meetups concerning the Magoun Sq. Green Line station (and the larger GLX project) on May 15 at 6 p.m. and May 20 at 10 a.m. We'll meet at the green space at the MaxPak (Maxwell’s Green). This is completely informal. This developed from communications with the property manager at Maxwell's Green and inspiration from Justin Moeling's walking tour in Gilman Sq. earlier in the year. Please invite anyone else you think might be interested.  
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This meeting will be the first Wednesday of the month--like our regular WHNA meeting. Should we move ours? Should we suggest people go to this? I don't know what else we have on the agenda (besides that rumor of some proposal for Star Market....?)



Via the "Green Line Extension updates from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation." newsletter:

Friends,

The Green Line Extension (GLX) project will host a public meeting:

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 6:30 to 8:00 PM, at the Somerville High School Auditorium, 81 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143.

The purpose of the meeting will be for GLX Constructors, the Design Build contractor for the GLX project, to provide the public with an outlook of construction activities anticipated in the coming months.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at info@glxinfo.com.

Thank you for your continued interest in the GLX project.
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From the Patch: "The agency awarded the contract to Green Line Constructors, comprised of firms Fluor Enterprises, the Middlesex Corporation, Herzog Contracting Corp. and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc."

ETA: the main page of the GLX site currently says, under the November 17, 2017 project update, "The bid includes all six additive options and MBTA contingency. The inclusion of prioritized additive options means that in addition to track infrastructure and seven station stops, construction will include platform canopies, additional elevators at select stations, public art, additional community connection to the community path located on Chester Street in Somerville, extension of the community path between East Somerville and Lechmere Stations and an enhanced vehicle maintenance facility in Somerville."

There's also a Public Information Meeting on Monday night, 6-8pm, at Tufts Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street, specifically about the proposed extension from College Ave to Mystic Valley Parkway. Presently, the GLX/about page says about this: "At the request of the cities of Medford and Somerville, as well as the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), MassDOT agreed to move forward on this initial step of the environmental review process by filing this NPC. While no funding source or timeline for project construction has been established yet, the Mayors of Medford and Somerville and other elected officials urged MassDOT to begin this process while the GLX project to College Avenue is underway so that the project will be advanced and well positioned should funding become available."
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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.

Read more... )
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Just spotted this in the Resistat newsletter this week.

Green Line Extension Meeting, 10/23
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Green Line Extension Team is holding a meeting to update the public about the project and about ongoing early construction in Somerville.

When/where: Mon., Oct. 23, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Somerville High School, 81 Highland Ave. Contact info@glxinfo.comwith questions.


PS: if you aren't signed up for the Resistat newsletter, you should. Lots of great info on city programs, events, news, etc. Everyone I talk to at the Powder House says they heard about the access from Resistat. Here's this week's in full: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1106537889473&ca=94372e1c-7e68-4ae9-87d5-28456f2983fb

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