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Broadway station (MBTA)

January 01, 1970

Broadway station is a subway station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA's Red Line. It is located at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway in South Boston. It was opened on December 15, 1917, as part of the Dorchester Extension from Downtown Crossing (formerly Washington station) to Andrew. The station has a single island platform to serve the two tracks.

Broadway
An inbound train at Broadway station in August 2021
General information
LocationDorchester Avenue at Broadway
South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°20′34″N 71°03′26″W / 42.3429°N 71.0572°W / 42.3429; -71.0572
Line(s)Dorchester Tunnel
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections MBTA bus: 9, 11, 47
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedDecember 15, 1917
Rebuilt1985
Passengers
FY20196,020 boardings (weekday average)[1]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
South Station
toward Alewife
 Red Line Andrew
toward Ashmont or Braintree
Former services (South Boston station)
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Boston
Terminus
 Boston–​Mattapan Crescent Avenue
toward Mattapan
Boston–​Braintree Crescent Avenue
toward Braintree
Location

History edit

Railroad stations edit

 
South Boston station in 1913

The Old Colony Railroad was built along the west edge of South Boston next to the Bass River in 1845. South Boston station was opened just south of the Dover Street (West 4th Street) bridge by the late 1860s.[2][3][4] The New York and New England Railroad (NY&NE) had its own South Boston station on the Midland Branch, located at West 1st Street near B Street. In use around the 1880s, it was closed no later than 1896, when Midland Branch service was rerouted to the Old Colony terminal during construction of South Station.[5][6]

Both the Old Colony and the NY&NE were absorbed by the New Haven Railroad in the 1890s as the Old Colony Division and Midland Division. By 1915, South Boston station was primarily served by Boston–Mattapan (Shawmut Branch) service, plus a small number of Midland Division trains and Old Colony Division trains to/from Braintree or points south.[7] The station closed around the time that Broadway station opened, though it reopened briefly in July 1919 during a strike that shut down subway and streetcar service.[8]

Construction edit

 
An original tiled mosaic station sign

After the Cambridge Tunnel was completed between Harvard and Park Street in 1912, work began to extend the line south to Dorchester. Rather than being opened all at once, the second section was opened station-by-station as soon as possible due to popularity. Extensions opened to Washington (Downtown Crossing) in 1915, South Station Under in 1916, and to Broadway on December 15, 1917. Broadway was the southern terminus of the line until Andrew opened on June 29, 1918.[9] With the exception of Park Street - which was built with three platforms to handle crowds - Broadway was the only station on the original Cambridge-Dorchester Tunnel with an island platform (rather than two side platforms) in order to facilitate transfers through its three levels. Not until the aboveground Columbia and Savin Hill stations opened in 1927 were there other island platforms used on the line.

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 segment just below ground, while subway trains used the lowest-level tunnel. Each level consisted of two tracks and an island platform.[10] 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, on the route 9 streetcar line. Buses replaced the single line to Bay View (which originally used the middle-level tunnel segment) in 1929, but the City Point line lasted until March 1, 1953 before being bustituted.[10]

Renovations edit

 
The 1980s renovation modified the near headhouse and added the far entrance

In the mid-1980s, the MBTA spent $80 million to extend the platforms of seven underground Red Line stations and three Orange Line stations to allow the use of six-car trains.[11] Contracts for Broadway and three other stations were awarded on December 18, 1985, with a groundbreaking held on February 13, 1986.[12][13] The Broadway work cost $7.9 million, with the platform extended by 70 feet (21 m).[13] Six-car trains entered service on January 21, 1988.[9] A new entrance east of Dorchester Avenue opened on February 16, 1988, and the project was completed on October 26, 1989.[12] Elevators were installed during the project, making Broadway one of the first older stations on the system to be modified for accessibility.[14][13]

As part of the Arts on the Line program, two works of public art were installed:[15][16]

  • Domestic Objects & Tools of the Trade by Jay Coogan: 60 enameled steel sculptures suspended over the platform stairs
  • 200 engraved ceramic tiles by students at the nearby St. Brigid's School

Broadway was a proposed stop on the Urban Ring – a circumferential bus rapid transit (BRT) line designed to connect the existing radial MBTA rail lines to reduce overcrowding in the downtown stations.[17] Under draft plans released in 2008, a westbound stop was to be located on the Broadway Bridge approach west of Dorchester Avenue, with the eastbound stop adjacent to the main station headhouse.[18] The project was cancelled in 2010.[19]

The MBTA plans to add a third headhouse with two elevators at the southwest corner of Dorchester Avenue and West 4th Street, which will provide redundant elevator access to the station. The existing elevators will also be rebuilt. A $6.6 million design contract for Broadway and Davis was awarded in April 2020.[20][21] Design work for Broadway reached 30% completion in 2021 and was nearly 75% complete by November 2023.[22][20][23]

Streetcar tunnel edit

 
Foundry Street Portal in early 2012

The middle-level streetcar tunnel ran from a portal on Foundry Street south to another in the median of Dorchester Avenue. Service lasted for under two years' time, until October 14, 1919 - just after Andrew opened - since Andrew provided more convenient service to South Boston and eliminated unprofitable running on an industrial section of Dorchester Avenue.[24] The Dorchester Avenue portal was filled in December 1941, but much of the tunnel still exists.[24]

The streetcar tunnel saw several adaptive reuses. In the 1930s, the Boston Elevated Railway attempted to grow mushrooms in the tunnel, and in the 1980s it was used to test tactile platform edging for blind passengers.[25] The 1985-built fare lobby occupies a section of the old streetcar platform and tunnel. After the September 11th attacks focused attention on infrastructure safety preparedness, the MBTA used the tunnel to train firefighters to respond to a burning train.[25]

In mid 2012, the MBTA started construction on an $10 million emergency training center located in the old streetcar tunnel, to replace the previous equipment. The $8.8 million facility, paid for with Department of Homeland Security funding, includes two Blue Line and one Green Line cars plus a Silver Line bus. The first Blue Line car was lowered into the Foundry Street Portal by crane in September 2012.[26] The facility opened on June 12, 2013.[27]

References edit

  1. ^ "A Guide to Ridership Data". MassDOT/MBTA Office of Performance Management and Innovation. June 22, 2020. p. 9.
  2. ^ Crafts, N. Henry (1868), Plan of Boston, with additions and corrections, City of Boston – Engineering Department
  3. ^ Hopkins, Griffith Morgan Jr.; Busch, Edward (1874). "Plate A". Atlas of the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts : vol. 3rd including Boston and Dorchester: from actual surveys and official records. Vol. 3. G.M. Hopkins & Co. pp. 10–11.
  4. ^ "Fatal Railroad Accident". New England Farmer. November 6, 1869. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Sixteen Hundred Picnickers". Boston Globe. July 19, 1888. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Barrett, Richard C. (1996). Boston's Depots and Terminals. Railroad Research Publications. p. 113. ISBN 1884650031.
  7. ^ Summer Schedule: Lines East of New London and Willimantic. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. August 9, 1915.
  8. ^ "South Boston Must Walk and is Doing It". Boston Globe. July 17, 1919. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ a b Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
  10. ^ a b O'Regan, Gerry (2005). "MBTA Red Line". NYCsubway.org. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  11. ^ 1985 Annual Report. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 1985. p. 13 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ a b Sanborn, George M. (1992). . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015 – via MIT.
  13. ^ a b c Crocket, Douglas S. (February 14, 1986). "Broadway station work begins". Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.  
  14. ^ Tran Systems and Planners Collaborative (August 24, 2007). "Evaluation of MBTA Paratransit and Accessible Fixed Route Transit Services: Final Report" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
  15. ^ Howe, Peter J. (April 27, 1988). "MBTA hopes riders will be transported by art". Boston Globe. pp. 21, 35 – via Newspapers.com. (second page)  
  16. ^ "On the Red Line" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2017. p. 9.
  17. ^ (PDF). January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2011.
  18. ^ (PDF). Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 14, 2017.
  19. ^ Mullan, Jeffery B. (January 22, 2010). "Re: Urban Ring Phase 2, EOEEA #12565" (PDF). Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
  20. ^ a b Normand, Eitan (April 2022). "Broadway Station Accessibility Improvements: Recorded Project Overview – 30% Design" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
  21. ^ Schwarz, John (April 13, 2020). "MBTA Contract Nos. A90PS02, A90PS04, & A90PS05: Architectural and Engineering Services for Station and Accessibility Improvements" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
  22. ^ "System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—December 2021" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. December 2021. p. 10.
  23. ^ "System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—November 2023" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. November 27, 2023. p. 10.
  24. ^ a b Clarke, Bradley H. (2003). Streetcar Lines of the Hub. Boston Street Railway Association. p. 33. ISBN 0938315056.
  25. ^ a b Bierman, Noah (26 December 2009). "Transit archeology: Tour of abandoned subway network offers a glimpse of how the T was built". Boston Globe. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  26. ^ Werthmann, Melissa M. (September 17, 2012). "Subway car is added to MBTA underground training facility for emergency workers". Boston Globe.
  27. ^ Powers, Martine (June 12, 2013). . Boston Globe. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2017.

External links edit

 
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January 01, 1970
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Broadway station is a subway station in Boston Massachusetts It serves the MBTA s Red Line It is located at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway in South Boston It was opened on December 15 1917 as part of the Dorchester Extension from Downtown Crossing formerly Washington station to Andrew The station has a single island platform to serve the two tracks BroadwayAn inbound train at Broadway station in August 2021General informationLocationDorchester Avenue at BroadwaySouth Boston Boston MassachusettsCoordinates42 20 34 N 71 03 26 W 42 3429 N 71 0572 W 42 3429 71 0572Line s Dorchester TunnelPlatforms1 island platformTracks2ConnectionsMBTA bus 9 11 47ConstructionStructure typeUndergroundAccessibleYesHistoryOpenedDecember 15 1917Rebuilt1985PassengersFY20196 020 boardings weekday average 1 ServicesPreceding station MBTA Following station South Stationtoward Alewife Red Line Andrewtoward Ashmont or BraintreeFormer services South Boston station Preceding station New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station BostonTerminus Boston Mattapan Crescent Avenuetoward Mattapan Boston Braintree Crescent Avenuetoward BraintreeLocation Contents 1 History 1 1 Railroad stations 1 2 Construction 1 3 Renovations 1 4 Streetcar tunnel 2 References 3 External linksHistory editRailroad stations edit nbsp South Boston station in 1913 The Old Colony Railroad was built along the west edge of South Boston next to the Bass River in 1845 South Boston station was opened just south of the Dover Street West 4th Street bridge by the late 1860s 2 3 4 The New York and New England Railroad NY amp NE had its own South Boston station on the Midland Branch located at West 1st Street near B Street In use around the 1880s it was closed no later than 1896 when Midland Branch service was rerouted to the Old Colony terminal during construction of South Station 5 6 Both the Old Colony and the NY amp NE were absorbed by the New Haven Railroad in the 1890s as the Old Colony Division and Midland Division By 1915 South Boston station was primarily served by Boston Mattapan Shawmut Branch service plus a small number of Midland Division trains and Old Colony Division trains to from Braintree or points south 7 The station closed around the time that Broadway station opened though it reopened briefly in July 1919 during a strike that shut down subway and streetcar service 8 Construction edit nbsp An original tiled mosaic station sign After the Cambridge Tunnel was completed between Harvard and Park Street in 1912 work began to extend the line south to Dorchester Rather than being opened all at once the second section was opened station by station as soon as possible due to popularity Extensions opened to Washington Downtown Crossing in 1915 South Station Under in 1916 and to Broadway on December 15 1917 Broadway was the southern terminus of the line until Andrew opened on June 29 1918 9 With the exception of Park Street which was built with three platforms to handle crowds Broadway was the only station on the original Cambridge Dorchester Tunnel with an island platform rather than two side platforms in order to facilitate transfers through its three levels Not until the aboveground Columbia and Savin Hill stations opened in 1927 were there other island platforms used on the line 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 segment just below ground while subway trains used the lowest level tunnel Each level consisted of two tracks and an island platform 10 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 on the route 9 streetcar line Buses replaced the single line to Bay View which originally used the middle level tunnel segment in 1929 but the City Point line lasted until March 1 1953 before being bustituted 10 Renovations edit nbsp The 1980s renovation modified the near headhouse and added the far entrance In the mid 1980s the MBTA spent 80 million to extend the platforms of seven underground Red Line stations and three Orange Line stations to allow the use of six car trains 11 Contracts for Broadway and three other stations were awarded on December 18 1985 with a groundbreaking held on February 13 1986 12 13 The Broadway work cost 7 9 million with the platform extended by 70 feet 21 m 13 Six car trains entered service on January 21 1988 9 A new entrance east of Dorchester Avenue opened on February 16 1988 and the project was completed on October 26 1989 12 Elevators were installed during the project making Broadway one of the first older stations on the system to be modified for accessibility 14 13 As part of the Arts on the Line program two works of public art were installed 15 16 Domestic Objects amp Tools of the Trade by Jay Coogan 60 enameled steel sculptures suspended over the platform stairs 200 engraved ceramic tiles by students at the nearby St Brigid s School Broadway was a proposed stop on the Urban Ring a circumferential bus rapid transit BRT line designed to connect the existing radial MBTA rail lines to reduce overcrowding in the downtown stations 17 Under draft plans released in 2008 a westbound stop was to be located on the Broadway Bridge approach west of Dorchester Avenue with the eastbound stop adjacent to the main station headhouse 18 The project was cancelled in 2010 19 The MBTA plans to add a third headhouse with two elevators at the southwest corner of Dorchester Avenue and West 4th Street which will provide redundant elevator access to the station The existing elevators will also be rebuilt A 6 6 million design contract for Broadway and Davis was awarded in April 2020 20 21 Design work for Broadway reached 30 completion in 2021 and was nearly 75 complete by November 2023 22 20 23 Streetcar tunnel edit nbsp Foundry Street Portal in early 2012 The middle level streetcar tunnel ran from a portal on Foundry Street south to another in the median of Dorchester Avenue Service lasted for under two years time until October 14 1919 just after Andrew opened since Andrew provided more convenient service to South Boston and eliminated unprofitable running on an industrial section of Dorchester Avenue 24 The Dorchester Avenue portal was filled in December 1941 but much of the tunnel still exists 24 The streetcar tunnel saw several adaptive reuses In the 1930s the Boston Elevated Railway attempted to grow mushrooms in the tunnel and in the 1980s it was used to test tactile platform edging for blind passengers 25 The 1985 built fare lobby occupies a section of the old streetcar platform and tunnel After the September 11th attacks focused attention on infrastructure safety preparedness the MBTA used the tunnel to train firefighters to respond to a burning train 25 In mid 2012 the MBTA started construction on an 10 million emergency training center located in the old streetcar tunnel to replace the previous equipment The 8 8 million facility paid for with Department of Homeland Security funding includes two Blue Line and one Green Line cars plus a Silver Line bus The first Blue Line car was lowered into the Foundry Street Portal by crane in September 2012 26 The facility opened on June 12 2013 27 References edit A Guide to Ridership Data MassDOT MBTA Office of Performance Management and Innovation June 22 2020 p 9 Crafts N Henry 1868 Plan of Boston with additions and corrections City of Boston Engineering Department Hopkins Griffith Morgan Jr Busch Edward 1874 Plate A Atlas of the county of Suffolk Massachusetts vol 3rd including Boston and Dorchester from actual surveys and official records Vol 3 G M Hopkins amp Co pp 10 11 Fatal Railroad Accident New England Farmer November 6 1869 p 3 via Newspapers com Sixteen Hundred Picnickers Boston Globe July 19 1888 p 6 via Newspapers com Barrett Richard C 1996 Boston s Depots and Terminals Railroad Research Publications p 113 ISBN 1884650031 Summer Schedule Lines East of New London and Willimantic New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad August 9 1915 South Boston Must Walk and is Doing It Boston Globe July 17 1919 p 7 via Newspapers com a b Belcher Jonathan Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district PDF Boston Street Railway Association a b O Regan Gerry 2005 MBTA Red Line NYCsubway org Retrieved 3 March 2012 1985 Annual Report Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 1985 p 13 via Internet Archive a b Sanborn George M 1992 A Chronicle of the Boston Transit System Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Archived from the original on October 2 2015 via MIT a b c Crocket Douglas S February 14 1986 Broadway station work begins Boston Globe p 22 via Newspapers com nbsp Tran Systems and Planners Collaborative August 24 2007 Evaluation of MBTA Paratransit and Accessible Fixed Route Transit Services Final Report PDF Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Howe Peter J April 27 1988 MBTA hopes riders will be transported by art Boston Globe pp 21 35 via Newspapers com second page nbsp On the Red Line PDF Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 2017 p 9 Urban Ring Phase 2 Fact Sheet PDF January 2009 Archived from the original PDF on July 8 2011 The Urban Ring Phase 2 Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report Statement PDF Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation November 2008 Archived from the original PDF on May 14 2017 Mullan Jeffery B January 22 2010 Re Urban Ring Phase 2 EOEEA 12565 PDF Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs a b Normand Eitan April 2022 Broadway Station Accessibility Improvements Recorded Project Overview 30 Design PDF Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Schwarz John April 13 2020 MBTA Contract Nos A90PS02 A90PS04 amp A90PS05 Architectural and Engineering Services for Station and Accessibility Improvements PDF Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority System Wide Accessibility Initiatives December 2021 PDF Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System Wide Accessibility December 2021 p 10 System Wide Accessibility Initiatives November 2023 PDF Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System Wide Accessibility November 27 2023 p 10 a b Clarke Bradley H 2003 Streetcar Lines of the Hub Boston Street Railway Association p 33 ISBN 0938315056 a b Bierman Noah 26 December 2009 Transit archeology Tour of abandoned subway network offers a glimpse of how the T was built Boston Globe Retrieved 7 August 2013 Werthmann Melissa M September 17 2012 Subway car is added to MBTA underground training facility for emergency workers Boston Globe Powers Martine June 12 2013 MBTA sets up disaster training center in tunnel Boston Globe Archived from the original on February 12 2019 Retrieved June 21 2017 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Broadway station MBTA MBTA Broadway MBTA Elevator Accessibility Upgrades Broadway Entrances on Google Maps Street View Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Broadway station MBTA amp oldid 1188095223, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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