Tufts Students to Clean up Boston Ave Near Train Tracks

– Allison Goldsberry

Tufts University students will spend part of what is supposed to be a beautiful Saturday cleaning up trash and other debris near the train tracks along Boston Avenue.

Freshman Benjamin Steinberg has organized a group of forty volunteers to clean up the area along the commuter rail tracks from College Avenue to Nick’s House of Pizza.

“The area that I want to have cleaned up is a wooded area that could potentially be a beautiful part of the community. This project not only helps the environment, but it also shows the community that both Tufts and the MBTA care about keeping their land clean,” said Steinberg in a statement to the media.

Steinberg got clearance from MBTA to access the area, and students will stay within ten to fifteen feet of the tracks for their safety. The MBTA will have a flagman at the site to supervise as an added precaution.

The area that will be cleaned up is between two proposed Green Line stops at College Avenue and Winthrop Street and is owned by the MBTA.

The project is sponsored by the MBTA and the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR), as well as the Tufts Office of Community Relations, Tufts Hillel, Tufts Mountain Club, Tufts Community Union Senate, and the Leonard Carmichael Society.