Wollaston (MBTA station)
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| Address | Newport Avenue and Beale Street Wollaston, MA 02170 |
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| Coordinates | 42°15′56″N 71°01′10″W / 42.265638°N 71.01953°WCoordinates: 42°15′56″N 71°01′10″W / 42.265638°N 71.01953°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Parking | 550 spaces[1] | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 30 spaces[1] | ||||||||||
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| Opened | September 1, 1971 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2009 daily) | 4,347[2] | ||||||||||
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Wollaston is a station on the Red Line of the MBTA subway at the intersection of Beale Street and Newport Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts. It serves Quincy's Wollaston neighborhood. It was opened on September 1, 1971 as the second of three stations in the original South Shore Extension.[3] Wollaston is the only Red Line station that is not currently wheelchair accessible.[1]
Wollaston station serves Eastern Nazarene College, which is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) away.
The station, located on a high grade, is one of a small number of elevated rapid transit stations remaining in the MBTA system. (The only others are Science Park, Malden Center, Charles/MGH, Beachmont, and Fields Corner.) Boston once had several elevated lines, but the Atlantic Avenue Elevated, Charlestown Elevated, Washington Street Elevated, and Causeway Elevated were all torn down in favor of subway and surface-level lines.
[edit] Bus connections
- 211 Squantum to Quincy Center Sta. via Montclair
- 217 Wollaston Station to Ashmont Station
[edit] Gallery
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Beale Street parking lot entrance
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Newport Avenue entrance
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Platform
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Wollaston Station". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/lines/stations/?stopId=15412. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Ridership and Service Statistics". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2010. http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/documents/Bluebook%202010.pdf. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ Belcher, Jonathan (31 December 2011). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. http://www.transithistory.org/roster/MBTARouteHistory.pdf. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
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