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A Fighting Chance against the MBTA's Station Plan

Sun, 02/28/2010 - 10:37am — ClareS

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Actonians are fighters. In the spring of 1775, they rose up in opposition against British rule and, along with hundreds of citizens from surrounding towns, fought back formidable enemy.

The stakes surrounding the South Acton Train Station redesign are not nearly so high, but I'm struck, as the tiniest hints of spring poke out of the ground in 2010, with the similarity of the fight – the tenacity of those who simply will not accept that the MBTA has the final say in a matter that impacts our every day lives.

South Acton Station – A NIMBY Issue or Not?

Sun, 02/14/2010 - 7:12pm — ClareS

Sunday, February 14, 2010

I have become an overnight activist. It was never my intent, but the changes proposed at the South Acton train station don't allow me to sit quietly on the sidelines. I send emails; I organize; I blog; I collect petition signatures; I talk with everyone who will listen. And as I speak with residents and commuters from surrounding towns, I am struck by the misconceptions that exist about the South Acton Train Station Design controversy, one of them being that this is being brought on a bunch of neighbors crying, "Not in my backyard!"

South Acton Station Redesign -- Site Walk with the MBTA -- January 30, 1 PM

Wed, 01/20/2010 - 9:41pm — ClareS

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

On Saturday, January 30 at 1:00 PM, the South Acton Train Station Advisory Committee (SATSAC) and Senator Jamie Eldridge will host an onsite visit at the South Acton train station with representatives of the MBTA, Acton residents and commuters to discuss, in context, the public's concerns with the MBTA's proposed station reconstruction.

Some readers will recall that Special Town Meeting this past June passed an article supporting the SATSAC's efforts to influence the MBTA's design for a station that, once their trucks and bulldozers have gone, we will live with for years to come.

MBTA rejects Acton Alternative Plan for South Acton Station; SATSAC meets Thursday, 12/10 to discuss next steps

Thu, 12/10/2009 - 9:26am — ClareS

Thursday, December 10, 2009

The MBTA is moving forward with plans to update South Acton Station as part of its Fitchburg Rail improvements project. Plans call for a 40-foot high, steel and glass structure, approximately five football fields in length, and a series of ramps and stairs that all commuters will need to negotiate, to a center platform, to access the trains.