Pleasant Street incline
42°20′56″N 71°03′58″W / 42.3490°N 71.0660°W
The Pleasant Street incline or Pleasant Street portal was the southern access point for the
History
Early use
The incline opened on October 1, 1897, one month after the first section of the
On June 10, 1901, streetcar service through the portal stopped, as the Washington Street Elevated (later part of the Orange Line) was connected to the two outermost tracks. El trains came out of the portal, stopped at a new Pleasant Street station with a center island platform in an open cut, passed under Pleasant Street, and then rose onto an elevated structure. Many surface streetcar lines were truncated to Dudley, the south end of the new El, until late November 1909.
After the
Decline
On March 2, 1953, the City Point line was replaced by the
The Pleasant Street portal is now covered by Elliot Norton Park at the intersection of Tremont Street, Shawmut Avenue, and Oak Street West.
Proposed reuse
Reuse of part of the tunnel for the Silver Line Phase III was briefly considered, but the narrow bore was found too small for the Silver Line buses which (unlike trolleys) are not fixed to their guideway.[2] Plans for the Phase III tunnel were shifted further west to new alignments, then canceled due to questions over the project's cost-effectiveness.[3]
The 2003 Program for Mass Transportation included the possibility of converting the Washington Street section of the
References
- ^ Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mohler, David J. (9 July 2010). "Annual Status Report" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Chapter 5C: System Expansion" (PDF). Program of Mass Transportation. Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. January 2004. p. 5C-76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Roxbury-Dorchester-Mattapan Transit Needs Study" (PDF). Massachusetts Department of Transportation. September 2012. p. 53. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- rtspcc, Questions about history of the Boston subways/els, ne.transportation May 2–3, 2005
- NETransit: 100 Years of the Tremont Street Subway