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April 9, 2021 | 10:45 AM
MBTA officials have long said that they hoped the Green Line Extension into Somerville and Medford would be fully operational by December of 2021.
For some riders, service is slated to begin a couple months earlier.
Officials are planning to begin service on the GLX’s one-stop Union Square branch this October, before opening the six-stop Medford branch in December, according to a slide buried at the end of a March 29 presentation by MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak.
Asked about the schedule, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo confirmed that “passenger service on the Union Square Branch is slated first, followed by the Medford Branch.” While officials have long planned to stagger the opening of the two branches in order to efficiently allocate staff for testing prior to beginning service, the suggested October opening date for the Union Square branch was not previously known.