Boston Globe: State backs Green Line extension into Medford

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State backs Green Line extension into Medford

By Megan Woolhouse
Globe Staff / February 4, 2009


MEDFORD - Clean-air activists praised state officials yesterday afternoon for endorsing a plan to expand the MBTA's Green Line into Medford, saying it would boost ridership and decrease the number of cars clogging the region's highways.

But people who live on and near the proposed train line worried openly about the project at a meeting with officials from the state's Executive Office of Transportation yesterday at St. Clement High School.

Ben Patterson, whose home abuts the proposed extension, said he was disturbed to hear state officials say the newly built Greenbush commuter rail line south of Boston came within a few feet of some residents' houses.

"That's very off-putting," Patterson said.

"If that happens to me, it will cast a shadow through my windows." ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/04/state_backs_green_line_extension_into_medford/