Ari Ofsevit reports that at a meeting yesterday, MassDOT planners said the proposed West Station on the Worcester Line has been put off to 2040, which is to say, put off to never.

The station, announced with great fanfare in 2014, was to be built in the old Allston Yards train yard that Harvard bought so it could one day build a new neighborhood. At the time, officials estimated the cost at $60 million and talked of the possibility of running a train up to Kendall Square over the Grand Junction train bridge over the Charles - which the state had bought from CSX to run some Worcester Line trains to North Station, something that is also never happening.