Revamped and accessible, MBTA’s Government Center station reopens after two years
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After a grand opening ceremony in the new stations entrance and a tour of the new facilities, Governor Charlie Baker took a radio in hand and gave the command Monday.
Governor Baker to central control, he said. Central control, at this time, Government Center station is now reopened, he said.
And with that, Bakeralong with Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, and Boston Mayor Marty Walshhopped aboard the first Green Line trolley to take passengers from the station in two years.
Having spent more than a year in crisis modestemming from last winters Snowpocalypse, negative fiscal news and doubt over whether the Green Line extension will ever be completedthe Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority seemed eager to embrace some good news with the reopening.
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