The Greenbush Commuter Rail Project

Project Summary: 
 
The MBTA Greenbush Commuter Rail Project ($500M) will restore commuter rail
service on the 18-mile long Greenbush rail line through the towns of
Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset, and Scituate, Massachusetts. The
Greenbush Line will provide needed additional transportation capacity and an
attractive new rail commuting option between Boston and the South Shore. The
Project will help to alleviate the severe highway and rapid transit
congestion in this area as well as improve commuter rail service in
Massachusetts. Construction began in 2003 and the Project is currently
nearing completion. Preliminary system testing is scheduled to begin in
early summer 2007 with revenue passenger rail service expected to start in 
late-2007. 

Speaker Bio:
 




Al Goff is the MBTA's consultant Program Manager for Systems for the Greenbush
Commuter Rail Project, where he oversees systems design, engineering,
construction, and testing aspects of the $500M project. Al is employed by
Washington Group International (WGI) as Director - Systems Engineering. WGI
is one of the largest engineering, construction, and project management
firms in the world and one of the four PMI Corporate Council Charter
Partners. Al previously worked for Raytheon Company for 10 years, Amtrak for
16 years in communications & signal engineering. He has more than 30 years
experience in systems engineering, labor negotiations, project and program
management. He has a B.S. in Business Management and is completing an
Executive Management program at MIT's Sloan School of Business. Al is a PMP
and a Member of the Southern New England Chapter of PMI.