New Station

of an approximately $500 million project to extend the subway's Red Line to the Alewife Brook parkway, by way of Davis Square and Porter Square. The federal Department of Transportation will fund 80 per cent of the effort.

The new Harvard station will have an entrance in front of the Harvard Coop as well as in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. The street between the bank and the station's kiosk will be removed, and replaced with trees and an entrance to the subway. Traffic will be rerouted to the north.

The MBTA hopes eventually to extend the red line beyond Alewife Brook to Arlington Center and Arlington Heights, but the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) has not yet approved that project. The UMTA has asked the MBTA to "re-study lower cost alternatives" to a subway extension into Arlington.

Most of the construction will be on property owned by the public, the MBTA and the Boston and Maine railroad. However, about 20 families and 20 businesses will have to be relocated.