MBTA officials will hold a public meeting to discuss proposed upgrades to the Newton Highlands Green Line station on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 6 p.m. at the Women’s Club of Newton Highlands, located at 72 Columbus St. The Globe’s John Hilliard has the details.
The project is designed to improve pedestrian access to the station by rebuilding the ramps from Walnut Street and Station Avenue and adding a new ramp from Hyde Avenue to the inbound side of the tracks, according to a statement posted on the MBTA’s website
Please don’t harm the Roxbury puddingstone, if at all possible. I am madly in love with it.
I really wish they would take care of the Newton Centre Station. It is such a historic building and is decaying before our eyes
@Michael. I, too, love the Roxbury Puddingstone. It was apparently formed more than 550 million years ago when what is now the eastern third of Massachusetts was part of a volcanic island chain that was quite like what the Japanese islands are today. This all took place when these formations were located close to the South Pole. A long story about how this whole region was formed and how it eventually got this far north.
I’m deeply disappointed by the lack of transparency of this process. Except for these two public meetings, both the public and city officials have been completely kept out of any deliberations, and like last time, the T insists on not releasing any of the new designs online until well after the meeting, so much of the public discourse will be in writing only. It will be interesting to see how much of the feedback from the previous round will be taken into account. In particular, the T’s failure to account for major track reconstruction and new train lengths.
I’m going to be out of town and will miss the public meeting, but I do hope they get the design right, because accessibility is so important. It would be a shame to see the T push another flawed design like they did for Auburndale or even what they ended up building in Newton Centre.