Broadway (MBTA station)
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 The island platform at Broadway Station. |
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| Address | Intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway, South Boston, MA | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°20′34″N 71°03′26″W / 42.3429°N 71.0572°WCoordinates: 42°20′34″N 71°03′26″W / 42.3429°N 71.0572°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | December 15, 1917 | ||||||||||
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| Owned by | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2009 daily) | 4,200[1] | ||||||||||
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Broadway is a station on the Red Line subway at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway in South Boston, Massachusetts. It was opened on December 15, 1917 as part of the Dorchester Extension of the "Cambridge Connection" from Washington (Downtown Crossing to Andrew. The station has a single island platform to serve the two tracks. Broadway was to be a stop on the Urban Ring Project, which is currently shelved due to lack of funding.
Three MBTA buses serve Broadway: the 9 City Point (MBTA station) - Copley via Broadway Station, 11 City Point - Downtown via Bayview, and 47 Central Square, Cambridge - Broadway Station via B.U. Medical Center routes.
[edit] History
Broadway station was originally built as a three-level station with six stairways to allow easy transfer between streetcars and subway trains. Some streetcars stopped at a surface-level platform, others in a tunnel just below ground, and subway trains in the lower-level tunnel. Each level consisted of two tracks and an island platform.[2] The street-level platform served streetcars that ran from the Tremont Street Subway to City Point and South Boston via the Pleasant Street Portal and Broadway. Buses replaced the single line to Bay View (which originally used the middle-level tunnel) in 1929, but the City Point line lasted until 1953 before being bustituted.[2]
The middle-level streetcar tunnel ran from a portal on Foundry Street south to another in the median of Dorchester Avenue. Service lasted only until 1919, just after Andrew opened. (Andrew provided more convenient service to South Boston and eliminated unprofitable running on a industrial section of Dorchester Avenue. The Dorchester Avenue portal was filled in 1940, but much of the tunnel is still extant.[2] The concrete portal on Foundry Street still stands, and one can look through a fence into the old tunnel. Additionally, part of the 1980s-built fare lobby was built into the old streetcar platform and tunnel.
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Northbound side of streetcar tunnel
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Southbound side of tunnel
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Arch of streetcar tunnel visible in fare lobby
[edit] References
- ^ "Ridership and Service Statistics". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2010. http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/documents/Bluebook%202010.pdf. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
- ^ a b c O'Regan, Gerry (2005). "MBTA Red Line". Nycsubway.org.
[edit] External links
- MBTA - Broadway Station
Media related to Broadway (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons- Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
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