RonR- As I said in my previous post, My uncle (from Amherst) was involved in the effort to stop the extension. He was involved in Amherst politics for many years and our family events were always the scene of political debate about the issues of th…

RonR- "A LARGE part of the reason Amherst didn't want the extension is Amherst did not want their roads jacked up for years" I think you are being generous in buying this "cover story". I followed this story at the time and it was pretty clear why…

The history of The Front is quite interesting. This was the site of an outcropping of chert used for the manufacture of tools and weapons. The Native Americans had been coming to this place for hundreds of years to obtain this important and scarce …

bhorvath, lives in the burbs- The light rail began in 1978 and was completed in 1985. The reason given for not extending to the north campus was declining population/ ridership and cost which was way over budget. No doubt these were a factor but op…