A potential Red Line-Blue Line connector is back in the spotlight
By Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff,Updated May 9, 2021, 6:56 p.m.
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A long-proposed connector would extend the Blue Line from Bowdoin station to the Charles/MGH Red Line Station.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Every now and then, it seems, one of the long-debated MBTA expansion projects resurfaces and captures the publicâs attention for a brief period before quickly receding into the annals of ideas gone by.
That has been the lifecycle of the Red-Blue connector â the on-again, off-again idea to extend the Blue Line a short distance down Cambridge Street to the Charles/MGH Red Line Station, finally linking the only two subway lines that donât currently connect.
May 10, 2021
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