Nubian station
Nubian | |||||||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | June 10, 1901 (Washington Street Elevated) July 20, 2002 (Silver Line)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Closed | April 30, 1987 (Washington Street Elevated)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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2013 daily | 3,128 (Silver Line weekday boardings[2]) | ||||||||||||||
2012 daily | 30,000 (MBTA bus weekday[3]) | ||||||||||||||
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Nubian station (variously known by its former name Dudley Square, Dudley, or Dudley Street Terminal) is a ground-level
The original Dudley Square station opened in 1901 as a BERy Main Line Elevated station. The last segment of the original Main Line Elevated, the Washington Street Elevated (including Dudley station), closed in 1987; six years later, Dudley was converted into its modern configuration. Silver Line service began in 2002. The station was renamed Nubian in June 2020, following the 2019 renaming of the square.
Nubian is a contributing property in the Dudley Station Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
History
Original station
The Boston Elevated Railway opened its
Like many BERy stations, Dudley Street Terminal was designed for efficient transfers between streetcars and subway trains. Many streetcar routes that had operated to downtown (some into the Tremont Street subway) were curtailed to Dudley, where two elevated loops offered
Modifications and decline
The Washington Street Elevated was extended south to
As streetcar routes were
From 1979 to 1987, the
Modern reuse
Even without the Elevated, Dudley Square remained a major bus transfer location. After several years, the former Elevated station was converted into a new bus station. The 784,000-pound (356,000 kg) station building was lowered 12 feet (3.7 m) to the ground and rolled 180 feet (55 m) to the south. The original station building covers north–south oriented bus platforms A, B, and C; new shelters in a similar style were built for east–west platforms D, E, and F. When completed in late 1993, the new Dudley Square bus station served over 10,000 daily passengers, with over 100 buses per hour stopping at peak times.[4]
When the Washington Street Elevated was removed, the MBTA originally promised to run
With the December 2019 renaming of Dudley Square to Nubian Square, community leaders stated they would seek to have the station renamed.[7] In February 2020, the MBTA agreed to rename the station to Nubian Square.[8][9] The renaming took effect in June 2020.[1]
Future plans
Dudley Square was a proposed stop on the
The closing of the Washington Street Elevated in 1987, which also closed the Dudley Square elevated station, prompted a 2012 review; the Roxbury-Dorchester-Mattapan Transit Needs Study, recommended for some form of proposed replacement rail service to access southern Metro Boston neighborhoods—one option being studied within this review would re-use the Tremont Street subway's now-unused southern
The MBTA plans to reconfigure the platforms and reverse the direction of buses through the station.[14]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
- ^ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
- ^ Ross, Casey (3 March 2012). "Dudley done right: City starts work on major rehab of a long-struggling Boston square". Boston Globe. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ ProQuest 195931293.
- ^ "Quincy". Boston Globe. November 25, 1905. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ ISBN 9780738504629.
- ^ Cotter, Sean Philip (December 19, 2019). "Roxbury's Dudley Square renamed Nubian Square". Boston Herald. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
- ^ Menard, Fausto (February 16, 2020). "Roxbury's Dudley Station To Be Renamed Nubian Station". WBUR. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ Erb, Jordan (February 15, 2020). "Dudley Station to be renamed Nubian Station". The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Roxbury-Dorchester-Mattapan Transit Needs Study" (PDF). Massachusetts Department of Transportation. September 2012. p. 53. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ "Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority FY23-27 Capital Investment Plan (CIP): Proposed" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. March 2022. p. 79.