State (MBTA station)

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	Orange Line
									Oak Grove
									Malden Center
									Wellington
									Sullivan Square
									Community College
									North Station
									Haymarket
									State
									Downtown Crossing
									Chinatown
									NE Medical Center
									Back Bay
									Mass Ave
									Ruggles
									Roxbury Crossing
									Jackson Sq
									Stony Brook
									Green Street
									Forest Hills
	Old Main Line Elevated stations Everett - Sullivan Square Thompson Square City Square - North Station Tunnel (Haymarket to Chinatown) Dover - Northampton - Dudley Egleston - Green - Forest Hills

	Blue Line
					Wonderland
					Revere Beach
					Beachmont
					Suffolk Downs
					Orient Heights
					Wood Island
					Airport
					Maverick
					Aquarium
				*	State
					Government Center
					Bowdoin
	*Wheelchair access on outbound side only at State; exiting inbound riders change direction at Government Center

State (often State Street) is a subway station of the MBTA located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. State is the transfer point between the Orange Line and the Blue Line.

Above ground, the station's exits are located between Government Center and the Financial District. This section of the subway was built on two levels to accommodate narrow Washington Street, and formerly each entrance to the station was given a separate name, State and Milk.

State Street Station is partially wheelchair accessible as of 2005. Currently, the outbound Blue Line platform at State Street is wheelchair accessible to the street. Inbound wheelchair users can take the Blue Line to Government Center and cross the platform there to an outbound Blue Line train and take it to the accessible State Street platform. The MBTA has plans to make the remaining Blue Line stations accessible as part of a larger effort to permit 6 car trains on the line. See MBTA accessibility.

From 1997 to 2000, State was renamed State/Citizens Bank in a corporate sponsorship from Citizens Bank, who had recently moved to the area, and hoped to eventually have the name changed to simply Citizens Bank Plaza. The sponsorship failed and the name reverted to State.

The most amazing element of State Street station is the entrance built directly into one of Boston's best-known monuments, the Old Massachusetts State House. The Old State House entrance to State Street station is in fact the basement of the Old State House, a fact which often confuses first-time tourists and visitors.

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• Suited to a T, Boston Business Journal December 19, 1997