Broadway station (MBTA)
Broadway | |||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
47 | |||||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||
Opened | December 15, 1917 | ||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||||
FY2019 | 6,020 boardings (weekday average)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
Location | |||||||||||||||||
Broadway station is a
History
Railroad stations
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
Construction
After the
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
Renovations
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
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
Streetcar tunnel
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
The streetcar tunnel saw several adaptive reuses. In the 1930s, the
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
- ^ "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 & 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.
- 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.
- ^ 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)
- ^ "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, & 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.
- ^ 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.