Green Line Extension to Medford was set to start service in December, then May, then this summer. Now? ‘Tracking for late summer,’ T says.Ruma and community groups she works with have pushed politicians for decades to stick with the project the state first promised in 1990 as part of an agreement with the Conservation Law Foundation, a legal advocacy group, to mitigate the environmental impacts of the Big Dig, which buried Interstate 93 beneath the center of the city. The foundation sued the state in 2005, accusing it of stalling the project. In 2007, the state agreed to complete the project by 2014, including extending the Green Line’s Medford branch to Route 16, farther than the current project calls for.
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After the entire thing was nearly scrapped when costs ballooned above $3 billion, the T brought in John Dalton to get the project back on track in 2016. He credits the T’s decision to make the extension a “stand-alone operation” with its own human resources, legal, and procurement teams, with bringing it back from the brink, he said earlier this year at the first branch’s opening.
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