Letter to the Boston Phoenix
In response to its 6 Jan 2006 article, "T-easing Pollution"

Peter Nersesian, Member, Arborway Rail Restoration Project Advisory Committee (ARRPAC)

From the 20 January 2006 edition

The Arborway rail-restoration project’s opponents may toss about unbuildable poison-pill designs, but contrary to what Deirdre Fulton states (“T-easing Pollution,” January 6), the record shows that at no time was removing parking on one side of Centre Street ever officially presented or considered, nor is it necessary to complete the project successfully. Furthermore, city officials have been pressed for years for specifics on emergency operating procedures used successfully for decades in Philadelphia — which runs light rail in streets nearly identical in geometry to Centre Street. If city and MBTA officials put half the creativity they have devoted to stalling the project into actually building it, it would be a model of effective urban transit instead of the “can’t-do” legacy we are left with today.

Peter Nersesian
Arborway Rail Restoration Project Advisory Committee