Overview
- Officials announced the agreement on Tuesday that ends the earlier impasse, the MBTA withdrew a threatened eminent-domain letter, and the city will issue the occupancy permit needed to implement the plan.
- Summer Street will be fully closed to vehicles between Dorchester Avenue and Atlantic Avenue for eight hours on June 13, June 19, June 29 and July 9 and will be open to traffic on the westbound side only for the June 16, June 23 and June 26 match days.
- The MBTA will use the closed street to set up temporary security screening and queuing space for fans traveling through South Station to the matches, with public-safety officials coordinating traffic direction and on-the-day decisions.
- Transit capacity has been scaled up for match days: the renovated Foxboro station reopened after work completed May 29 and service resumed June 1, the T will run 14 special express trains that it says can move about 20,000 passengers per match, and round-trip train tickets are priced at $80 with roughly 37–43 percent of early tickets sold.
- Officials said they will review operations after each match to ease neighborhood and commuter impacts, and they urged residents to avoid the area on game days or use public transit if travel is necessary.