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H3733 • 2025

Resolve directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line

Resolve directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line

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Sponsor
William F. MacGregor
Last action
2025-12-11
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
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Plain English Breakdown

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Resolve directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line

Resolve directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line By Representative MacGregor of Boston, a petition (accompanied by resolve, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • Resolve directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line By Representative MacGregor of Boston, a petition (accompanied by resolve, House, No.
  • 3733) of William F.
  • MacGregor for an investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line.
  • Transportation.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-12-11 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2025-12-11 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-12-11 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-11-18 House

    Resolve reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  5. 2025-08-25 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 09/16/2025 from 1:00 PM-5:00 PM in B-2

  6. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Transportation

  7. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

Resolve directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line
By Representative MacGregor of Boston, a petition (accompanied by resolve, House, No. 3733) of William F. MacGregor for an investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of extending the orange line. Transportation.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.3733

Resolved,
the Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall conduct a feasibility study relative to extending rapid transit service from the current terminus of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s Orange Line at Oak Grove in the City of Malden to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Rail station through Roslindale Village, in the Roslindale section of the city of Boston.

The study shall examine and evaluate the costs and economic opportunities related to extending Orange Line service or otherwise expanding rapid transit service from the City of Malden to the City of Boston, including but not limited to: (i) the projected capital costs; (ii) the projected operating costs and revenue estimates; (iii) the projected ridership levels; (iv) the prospect of operating on existing rights of way and other operational issues; (v) the environmental and community impact estimates; (vi) the availability of federal, state, local and private sector funding sources; (vii) regional equity in rapid transit investments in the commonwealth, and (viii) the potential economic, social and cultural benefits to the Boston Neighborhoods and the commonwealth as a whole.

The department shall file the report with the clerks of the house and senate, the chairs of the house and senate committee on ways and means and the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on transportation not later than 120 days after passage of this act.

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