Getting to Kendall Square in Cambridge from the western suburbs isn’t easy. You can drive in on the Massachusetts Turnpike and take your chances with the brutal traffic in Cambridge, or you can ride all the way into Boston on either the commuter rail or the Green Line and then make your way out to Kendall from there.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ latest life science project in Cambridge’s Kendall Square would redevelop a former industrial site as 370,000 square feet of office-lab space and contribute over $11 million toward a portion of a planned multi-use path leading from the Charles River to the Somerville line.
A Brookline developer is designing an Allston apartment tower to open a connection from the Packards Corner area to the MBTA’s planned West Station.
As we brace for more than a decade of massive construction on the Mass. Pike, let’s make our whole transportation system part of the solution. The time to invest in improved service on the Worcester Line and transit on the Grand Junction right-of-way is now.
