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Old Posted Oct 3, 2015, 1:54 PM
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State wants Green Line extension plan by Thanksgiving
Boston.com | 09.21.15

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The MBTA expects to soon hire analysts to help officials understand how the costs of the Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford expanded so sharply.

The agency revealed in August that the long-planned project had seen its previous $2 billion price tag increase by as much as $1 billion more, a circumstance dire enough for officials to say scrapping the project is a possibility.

The state plans to bring an auditing firm on board next week to take a thorough look at what went wrong, Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack said Monday.
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A plan will be in place before the end of the fall, Pollack said, echoing comments from Gov. Charlie Baker last week.

“We ... intend to have the strategy in place by Thanksgiving,” Pollack said. “That doesn’t mean that, for example, if we decided to rebid we would have rebid by Thanksgiving, that means the decision would have been made.”

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