MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

cubbe8 said:
According to this article from boston.com, it seems like the project is moving forward however it states that the environmental review should be finished by early 2025 which means the project is about 2 years behind schedule.
www.boston.com

Here’s where the MBTA’s Red-Blue Connector stands

Touted by transit advocates, the Red-Blue Connector has idled for decades. Now, new funding aims to inch the long-awaited project forward.
www.boston.com
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If it takes two years to do an environmental study on this things have gotten way out of control. It’s a thousand feet of cut and cover subway tunnel in a city.
 
TallIsGood said:
If it takes two years to do an environmental study on this things have gotten way out of control. It’s a thousand feet of cut and cover subway tunnel in a city.
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It's not really supposed to ever get built. The goal is to continue studying it and doing preliminary design work over and over again to keep advocates sated. The project will become "shovel-ready" and will sit on the shelf for a few years. Then, when funding becomes available, the EIS and design documents will be considered out-of-date and will need to be started again.
 
Early 2025 is not two years away. It is barely over one year away in business terms.

The T's project page anticipates their MEPA filing to establish the project in early Oct, 2023. Let's see if that happens and take it from there.

TallIsGood said:
If it takes two years to do an environmental study on this things have gotten way out of control. It’s a thousand feet of cut and cover subway tunnel in a city.
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No, that is not how it works. They need to advance the actual engineering design in order to do these environmental filings. They are not spending a year simply on environmental paperwork.
 
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TallIsGood said:
If it takes two years to do an environmental study on this things have gotten way out of control. It’s a thousand feet of cut and cover subway tunnel in a city.
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And yet it does. Shit is indeed out of control. Seemingly nobody in state or national government has any interest in cutting thru the fact that literally doing anything in any division of any executive branch takes an absurd amount of time. This why people lose faith in the government.
 
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