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Route 16 (MBTA station)

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Owned by
  
MBTA

Platforms in use
  
1

Opened
  
2020

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Location
  
Route 16 Somerville, Massachusetts

Owner
  
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Tracks
  
2 (Lowell Line, Green Line)

Similar
  
College Avenue, Gilman Square, Lechmere, Forest Hills, Isaac Royall House

Route 16 is a proposed station on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch in Somerville, Massachusetts; it would be built as part of a future third phase of the Green Line Extension (GLX). Route 16 would consist of one island platform, which would serve the "D" Branch's two tracks. The station was dropped from the list of stations that will open in 2020, in favor of the "D" Branch terminating at College Avenue. The state successfully argued that this satisfied their legal commitment to mitigate the air pollution impact of the Big Dig by (among other projects) extending the Green Line to College Avenue station in Medford Hillside.

In 2011, the Boston MPO decided to allocate funding in the 2016-2020 time period for further extension of the Green Line from College Ave to Route 16.

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Route 16 (MBTA station) Wikipedia