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Friday, July 13, 2012

Green Line Extension Gets Environmental Approval From Feds

The Green Line Extension received a "finding of no significant impact" on its federal environmental assessment.

The federal government this week gave the Green Line Extension an enironmental stamp of approval, according to an announcement from the state's Green Line Extension team. According to the announcement, the Federal Transit Administration released a "finding of no significant impact" for the project, which means the Green Line Extension received "full federal environmental approval." Here's what the announcement said: MassDOT and the MBTA this week received full federal environmental approval for the Green Line Extension project. The Federal Transit Administration released a Finding of No Significant Impact for the project, reaffirming its myriad environmental, mobility, economic development, and community-building benefits. Federal …

Monday, June 11, 2012

Green Line Extension Takes Step Forward With Feds

The project has been added to the Federal Transit Administration's 'New Starts' pipeline.

The Green Line Extension moved one step closer Monday toward the goal of federal funding, though there is no guarantee the federal government will eventually cough up money to help pay for the project. According to a letter sent Monday by the Federal Transit Administration to Richard Davey, secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Green Line Extension has been added to the pipeline of projects in the federal administration's New Starts program. The letter says the Green Line Extension has permission from the administration to enter the "preliminary engineering" phase of planning. This puts the proposed Green Line Extension on a master list of transportation projects across the country the Federal Transit …

Jonah Petri

7:42 am on Thursday, June 14, 2012

This is the actual letter, BTW: http://greenlineextension.org/documents/FTA_NewStarts/prelim_approval_letter061112.pdf   more ›

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