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Welcome to the Urban Ring

The Urban Ring is a proposed major new bus rapid transit (BRT) system that would run in a roughly circular corridor serving employment centers, residential neighborhoods, and major educational and medical institutions in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Medford and Somerville. The Urban Ring would provide improved transit access by connecting residents to jobs and by providing more direct connections with the MBTA’s existing radial rapid transit and commuter rail systems throughout the corridor.  The Urban Ring service and the connections it provides would improve transit travel times and system efficiency, create additional transit capacity, and reduce crowding in the central subway system.  The Urban Ring strongly supports opportunities for transit oriented development and smart growth development.

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What's New?
The Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report/Draft Environmental Impact Statement (RDEIR/DEIS) is now available.  Please click here to download a copy of the document.


Print Copies of the RDEIR/DEIS can be found at the following libraries (click on each location to view directions):

  

• State Transportation Library of Massachusetts, 10 Park Plaza 2nd Floor, Boston


• Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street


• Boston Public Library,Honan-Allston Branch,300 North Harvard Street


• Boston Public Library, Dudley Square Branch, Roxbury, 65 Warren Street


• Boston Public Library, East Boston Branch, 276 Meridian Street


• Boston Public Library, South Boston Branch, 646 East Broadway


• Public Library of Brookline, 361 Washington Street


• Cambridge Public Library, 359 Broadway


• Chelsea Public Library, 569 Broadway


• Parlin Memorial Library, 410 Broadway, Everett


• Medford Public Library, 111 High Street


• Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Avenue

 A public hearing on the document will take place on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 from 6PM-8PM at the Leverett Saltonstall Building, 100 Cambridge Street – Conference Rooms C&D. You will need a photo ID to enter the building.

Comments on the document must be submitted in writing (oral comments made at the public hearing will not be recognized by the MEPA office). A 60-day comment period has been established.  Comments must be received no later than February 10, 2009.  Written comments must be addressed to:

Secretary Ian A. Bowles
Director of Program Development
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Attn: MEPA Office, EOEA #12565
Richard Bourre, Assistant Director
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900
Boston, MA 02114
617-626-1181 (fax; please follow up with a print copy of the fax)
Email

Commenters can copy the Project Manager at EOT:

Ned Codd
Director of Program Development
Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works
10 Park Plaza, Room 4150
Boston, MA 02116
617-973-7473

To request a print or CD version of the RDEIR/DEIS, please contact Regan Checchio, Regina Villa Associates, at 617-357-5772 x14 or by email.