MBTA Extensions: Planned and Actual |
August 25th, 2010 |
history, mbta, transport |
These show the following extensions, in order of construction, using the modern names:![]()
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- purple: Extend the green line west from kenmore to riverside and needham (Built to riverside as the D line: 1959. Needham not planned.)
- yellow: Extend the red line south from savin hill to braintree (Built as the south shore line and braintree extension: 1971, 1980)
- red: Extend the orange line from sullivan square to reading (Built only to oak grove, with rerouting, from haymarket as the haymarket north extension: 1977)
- yellow: Extend the red line northwest from harvard to arlington heights using a southerly routing to alewife. (Built with a northerly routing via porter and davis only as far as alewife as the northwest extension: 1985)
- blue: Extend the green line north to from lechmere to woburn. (Planned only to college av or route 16 with a spur to union square: scheduled to complete in 2015)
- green: Extend the blue line from maverick to lynn. (Built only to wonderland: 1954. Possible plans for an extension to lynn in the 2020s.)
- red: Extend the orange line south from forest hills to dedham (not planned)
- blue: Extend the green line west from boyleston to riverside in a northerly routing along different tracks, where the pike is now. (Not planned)
- red-blue connector: extend the blue line from bowdoin to meet the red line at charles/mgh (legally mandated)
- blue line extension from wonderland to lynn
- green line extension to medford hillside and union square (legally mandated)
- red line extension to arlington and lexington under the minuteman commuter bike path
- green line extension from newton highlands (D line) to needham junction
- orange line extension from forest hills to route 128
- orange line from oak grove to reading.
- green line from medford to woburn
- green line from boyleston to riverside along the worcester commuter rail line
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