A local leader from Arlington told the MBTA that bus service has deteriorated and that the MBTA should “dust off” its Red Line extension plans.
When the Town of Arlington said no to its own Red Line stop nearly 50 years ago, the MBTA scraped its plans for an extension from Harvard Square to Lexington and ended the line at Alewife in Cambridge.
Now, a local advocate has asked the MBTA to “dust off” its plans to extend the line to Arlington Heights.
Paul Schlichtman, the chair of the Arlington School Committee, told the MBTA Board of Directors Thursday during public comment that Arlington has seen “steady deterioration” in bus service for the Boston suburb…