Shuttle buses will replace trains between Government Center and Union Square stations in both directions from Aug. 22 to Sept. 18. Service on the branch began March 21.
Changes to three East Cambridge bus routes serving lower-income people and seniors are adding to concerns over a wholesale redesign of the MBTA bus system.
The departure of City Manager Louis A. DePasquale is less than two months away, and he has begun to kick things down the road to his unknown replacement.
A building originally announced to be finished in 2020 – in an estimate from March 2019, before the Covid pandemic – has been completed and sold near Kendall Square.
Service restarted Monday on a relocated Lechmere MBTA station and to Somerville’s new Union Square station as part of the state’s green line extension project, a moment of joy in a project years overdue and once declared all but dead.
The MBTA plans to hold an emergency response drill using a train between the new Lechmere and Union Square green line T stations from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, but neighbors can expect activity in the area as early as 7 a.m.
The return of the Lechmere MBTA station to use and start of green line extension service to Somerville’s Union Square on March 21 drew plenty of attention last week, but city councillors are looking beyond that news.
Money being returned by the MBTA should be directed right back at improving mass transit in Cambridge, especially where it makes up for the state agency’s deficiencies, residents and city councillors said Monday.
Police released video Monday that shows the stabber in a Saturday road rage incident and the car he fled in, hoping people will come forward with helpful information.