Green Line Extension

After years of anticipation, two new stops on the MBTA Green Line have opened in Somerville.

Starting Monday, spots north of Cambridge’s Lechmere Station to Union Square in Somerville will now be accessible by the train for quicker public transit. Also Monday, service between North Station and Lechmere will resume.

Starting Monday, spots north of Cambridge’s Lechmere Station to Union Square in Somerville will now be accessible by the train for quicker public transit.

After years of planning and construction, officials held a grand opening for a portion of the Green Line Extension Monday. The long-term project, aimed at providing service in areas that historically lacked access to public transit, is nearing completion. Starting Monday, spots north of Cambridge’s Lechmere Station to Union Square in Somerville will now be accessible by the train...

The MBTA might inch to the edge of a financial “cliff” as soon as fiscal year 2024, when the agency will have exhausted all of the nearly $2 billion in federal COVID-19 aid it received and will face a budget gap of more than $230 million, officials said Thursday. Presenting a multi-year budget projection to board members, MBTA CFO Mary…

The MBTA has announced the opening of the first Green Line Extension stop. The long-term project is closer to nearing completion, and revenue service to Union Square Station will start during the day on March 21, MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said, according to Massachusetts Department of Transportation spokesperson Jacquelyn Goddard. At the beginning of February, sparkling new test trains…

Progress is being made on a long-term project to extend the MBTA’s Green Line. Sparkling new test trains are running on the Green Line Extension as the MBTA works out the choreography of a line that will eventually go through Somerville and into Medford. MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said the project “was frankly dead. That essentially crashed and...

A yearslong project to bring the Green Line of the MBTA into Somerville and Medford is nearing completion.

The MBTA will postpone the opening of the first Green Line Extension stop in Somerville by three months, and the already-delayed May 2022 goal for the remainder of the megaproject also appears uncertain, officials announced Thursday. Calling it “disappointing news,” MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said the transit agency now expects to reopen Lechmere Station and open a brand-new stop…

The MBTA’s Green Line Extension is just months away from opening its first phase. This is big news for people in Cambridge, Somerville and Medford, who have been waiting for a long time for train service. The massive project is taking shape. One of the most noticeable features is the new Lechmere Station in Cambridge. Unlike the old station,...

NBC10 Boston got a first look inside the brand new Lechmere station in Cambridge, part of the massive Green Line extension project.

Passenger service on most of the long-awaited Green Line Extension will not begin until five months after the original target amid what officials described as “schedule pressure” inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and two cities that helped foot the project bill are in line to be credited tens of millions of dollars each. With construction of the $2.3 billion rail…

Two MBTA maintenance projects will launch Monday that will shut down train service on the affected lines for at least a week, an effort by the T to accelerate original plans and take advantage of lower ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Blue Line trains will be shut down between Bowdoin and the Logan Airport stop from Monday, May 18 through…