Wellington (MBTA station)
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| Address | Revere Beach Parkway & Corporation Way, between Routes 28 & 16 Medford, MA 02155 |
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| Coordinates | 42°24′07″N 71°04′38″W / 42.401907°N 71.077096°WCoordinates: 42°24′07″N 71°04′38″W / 42.401907°N 71.077096°W | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 island platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | 1,316 spaces | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 16 spaces | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 6, 1975 | |||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | MBTA | |||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2009) | 7,464 (weekday average boardings)[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Wellington is a MBTA station on the Orange Line, located in Medford, Massachusetts, USA on the Revere Beach Parkway (a.k.a Route 16) slightly east of its intersection with Route 28.
While there are some restaurants and stores nearby, this station primarily serves as a park and ride station and as a bus hub, with connections to several local bus routes. It features a large parking lot and a nearby parking garage connected to the station by an above-ground walkway, for a total of 1,316 spaces.
The Orange Line's main yard and shop is located here.
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[edit] Parking
Wellington has a parking structure, entrance located off Rte. 28. Access to the fully enclosed overhead walkway going to the station as well as the manned pay station is on the 3rd floor. This structure allows parking up to 10 days for the daily rate.
In 2010, the 8 story parking structure was divided into 2 sections, with the lower floors charging a higher rate than the higher ones. The price structure changes each year.
[edit] Renovations
The station underwent some changes in 2006. New fare collection systems were installed to support the new Charlie Ticket, and the people mover connecting the parking garage with the station was replaced with an elevated walkway.
[edit] Accessibility
This station is wheelchair accessible. Wellington Station is not easily accessible by foot, thus many people take buses or park at the station.
[edit] Buses
The following buses provide service to Medford, Everett, Malden and other surrounding cities.
- 90 Davis Square & Red Line - Wellington Station via Sullivan Square Station & Assembly Square Mall
- 97 Wellington Station - Malden Center Station via Canal Street, Hancock Street & Everett
- 99 Boston Regional Medical Center - Wellington Station via Main Street & Malden Center Station
- 100 Elm Street - Wellington Station via Fellsway
- 106 Franklin Square - Wellington Station via Lebanon Street, Linwood Ave, Melrose, Maplewood Square & Malden Center Station
- 108 Linden Square - Wellington Station via Highland Ave & Malden Center Station
- 110 Wonderland Station & Blue Line - Wellington Station via Park Ave, Everett & Woodlawan.
- 112 Wood Island Station & Blue Line - Wellington Station Mystic Mall & Chelsea
- 134 North Woburn - Wellington Station via Woburn Square, Medford Square, & Meadow Glen Mall
[edit] People mover
In May 1996 construction began on an automated people mover connecting Wellington Station with the Mystic Center (later "Station Landing") office complex and park and ride. Completed in October 1997 at a cost of $2.9 million, the 760-foot-long (230 m) "horizontal elevator" was designed to carry 1,000 commuters a day at speeds up to 25 mph (40 km/h)[2] taking about 55 seconds to travel end to end.[3]
Constructed by Poma-Otis, the people mover consisted of a pair of independent cable-hauled cars on two parallel tracks. Unlike other Otis-built people movers, which float on a cushion of air, the Wellington people mover was the first by Otis to run on steel rails.[4] Each eight-seat glass sided car could carry up to 45 passengers or 7,200 pounds (3.3 t) resulting in a maximum capacity of 1,600 people per hour per direction.[4] Riders entered and exited from pairs of sliding doors on the ends of the carriages, with a third door providing access to the emergency walkway between the two tracks.
The people mover was plagued by mechanical problems, which resulted in both high maintenance costs and low reliability. The frequent breakdowns and service outages frustrated riders to such an extent that 91% of users preferred replacing the people mover with a walkway, according to a 2004 survey of 240 Wellington commuters conducted by National Development, owners of the Station Landing property.[5]
In August 2006, less than ten years after it first opened, the people mover was demolished, and an above-ground covered walkway was constructed on top of the existing viaduct structure. Off-site fabrication of parts was used to speed construction of the enclosed walkway,[5] while a temporary shuttle-bus connected commuters to the parking structure during the construction.[6] The replacement walkway, named SkyWalk, cost $3 million to construct, and opened in March 2007.
[edit] Future plans
In 2013 an additional station stop is due to open at Assembly Square, south of Wellington Station.
Wellington Station is also a proposed stop on the MBTA's planned Urban Ring Project.[7] The Urban Ring will be a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Line designed to connect the current MBTA Lines to reduce strain on the downtown stations.
[edit] References
- ^ "Ridership and Service Statistics". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2010. http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/documents/Bluebook%202010.pdf. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ Richards, Brian (2001). Future Transport in Cities. Taylor & Francis. pp. 130. ISBN 9780415261425. http://books.google.com/books?id=S7KQ-SOB8_4C&pg=PA130.
- ^ "Mystic Transportation Center at Wellington Station". Transreport (Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization) (Winter): 3. 1998. http://www.ctps.org/bostonmpo/4_resources/2_transreport/archive/trpt_w98.pdf. Retrieved 2009-10-18. "... opened in October 1997. ... The glassed-in shuttle ride between the garage and Wellington Station takes about 55 seconds."
- ^ a b Fabian, Lawrence (Nov/Dec 1997). "Boston's New Automated Peoplemover". Mass Transit: 19.
- ^ a b "Wellington People Mover to be replaced with walkway". Malden Observer. Jun 01, 2006. http://www.wickedlocal.com/malden/archive/x1082400803#ixzz1O6RpksIQ. Retrieved Jun 01, 2011.
- ^ Santoro, Phil (2006-05-18). "T commuters will walk the line". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/05/18/t_commuters_will_walk_the_line/. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
- ^ https://www.commentmgr.com/projects/1169/docs/URnews0105c.pdf
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wellington (MBTA station) |
- The MBTA's official page for this station
- Photos of this station from world.nycsubway.org
- Otis Horizontal Elevator people mover video, at YouTube.
