Articles
in the media on the Arborway Corridor, light rail, and Boston transit in general

• Judge allows most of T suit to proceed
  A federal judge rules that 18 of 20 counts of a suit to hold Massachusetts to its transit commiments, including the Arborway restoration project, may proceed. From The Boston Globe, March 21, 2006.
• Arborway advocates rip critical 'secret' T study
  Two new studies of the Arborway Green Line Restoration Project have state transportation officials hoping to put the brakes on the proposal before it bleeds more green, while advocates cry foul over a "secretive'' study process. From The Boston Herald, February 3, 2005.
• As Post-Dig Transit Projects Stall, Lawsuit Looms
  The state will not make court-ordered deadlines on a half-dozen transit projects promised as a condition for building the Big Dig, inviting a Conservation Law Foundation lawsuit that could force the projects to be built on a strict schedule.. From The Boston Globe, November 8, 2004.
• T proponents say expansion is a matter of life or death
  Supporters of mandated transit improvements cite detrimental public health effects as the MBTA and EOT prepare to attempt permission to substitute other projects yet again. From The Boston Globe, December 1, 2004.
• Road Rage
  Arborway Committee and ARRPAC member Elizabeth Fixler squares off against bus proponent Paul Schimek to answer criticisms that bus service would be superior to light rail rapid transit on the Arborway corridor. From The Boston Globe Magazine, April 11, 2004.
• State prodded on transit pact
  DEP commissioner Robert Golledge warns that the Romney administration is violating a judge's order from 2000 mandating improvements to the state's transit system to coincide with completion of the Big Dig. From The Boston Globe, January 12, 2003.
• Growth engines
  Communities throughout Eastern Massachusetts are realizing the benefits to their long-term sustainability and economic health that rail transportation brings. From The Boston Globe, January 12, 2003.
• Despite detours, Arborway rail plan on smoother ground
  Coverage of the first Arborway Restoration planning process community meeting. From The Boston Globe's "Starts and Stops" column, January 13, 2002.
• T does a U-turn on resumption of Arborway trolleys
  At last, the EOTC and MBTA come forth and announce their commitment to restoring the Green Line to the Arborway, sixteen years later. From the Boston Herald, November 8, 2001.
• T plan will swamp Boston with buses
  An op-ed piece by noted urban planning chronicler Jane Holtz Kay from the August 8, 2001 edition of The Boston Globe, offering scathing criticism for the MBTA's Arborway Corridor bus plan.
• T's proposed new bus line a bust
  An editorial which ran in The Beacon Hill Times on June 19, 2001, summing up the Beacon Hill community's response toward the MBTA proposal to run 401 60-foot Route 39 buses around Boston Common each day: “What were they thinking?”
• History repeats itself
  Low-cost, low-tech streetcar systems serve a real purpose, not only as recreational and tourist attractions, but by drawing attention to modern urban rail transit. From Railway Age, May 2001.
• "Railroaded," a three-part series from the Weekly Dig, an alternative free paper in Boston, looking into a variety of service improvements sought for the MBTA. View the Introduction, Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV (which covers the Arborway Corridor) as well as some items from the paper's Letters section. (The conclusion, Part V, will appear May 9.)
• "Boston commuters: wheels of fortune"
  A look at the positive effect public transit has on traffic in Greater Boston. ("The moral of the story is simple, says the Conservation Law Foundation's Seth Kaplan: Give commuters more options, and they will use them.")