Activists: just say `no' to Silver Line plan

Activists: just say `no' to Silver Line plan

Calling the MBTA's allocation of resources in the inner city "transportation racism," a coalition of activists is calling on the MBTA to scrap its plans to develop the Silver Line bus route in Roxbury and instead build a trolley route along Washington Street Corridor.

Members of the Washington Street Corridor Coalition spoke at an MBTA Board meeting last week.

"We just think the project has gotten to the point where it's indefensible," he said. "They're wasting $1.3 billion on a project that nobody wants. We think it's a gross misuse of the taxpayers' money and we don't think it's a suitable replacement for the Orange …