The word is out that construction activities focused on laying the final section of tracks for the Green Line Extension in the Somerville and Medford areas will be taking place at night over the next few weeks.

According to reports, the construction work will mainly take place in the area between College Ave. and Lowell St. and will involve all sorts of potentially very noisy activities.

While the noise will only affect a small number of local residents, we feel for them and offer our sincerest sympathies. We certainly wouldn’t want to put up with this ourselves.

And yet, even though a certain portion of the city may be somewhat inconvenienced for a certain period of time, it’s kind of nice to know that the GLX is still chugging forward, however slowly yet surely it may be.

The city, state, and national governments have all sunk a fortune into the effort, while we ourselves have ducked and dodged and wheedled our way across the city and its surroundings through chopped up and wildly diverted roadways. We’ve all paid our fares and we’re more than ready to climb aboard and enjoy the fruits of all this fortune and labor.

And as we contend with the horrors of the coronavirus crisis and all the inconvenience that it imposes on us, it’s also nice to know that this project that began long before these troubles arose is finally approaching its ultimate conclusion.

So maybe a little more inconvenience of this sort is not so hard to take after all. Especially considering everything else we’re going through right now.