Maverick (MBTA station)

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Maverick Station
Address	220 Sumner at Chelsea Street and Meridian Street, East Boston
Lines	MBTA Subway Blue Line
Bicycle facilities	eight spaces
Other information
Opened	December 5, 1904 as streetcar portal, converted to rapid transit April 18, 1924
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Maverick is a subway station on the Blue Line at Maverick Square in East Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is the easternmost underground station on the Blue Line, and a transfer point to various buses. One center island platform provides access to the surface in the middle of Maverick Square. In the station, a track map lined with light bulbs shows the position of the trains on the Blue Line between Bowdoin and Orient Heights. It is one of the last stations to be converted to 6-car train service in the MBTA's Blue Line restoration project.

When the East Boston Tunnel originally opened on December 30, 1904, it was a streetcar tunnel with a portal at Maverick, known as Maverick Portal or the Maverick Incline. There was no station at Maverick, streetcars simply left the portal and continued north on Meridian Street or southeast on Maverick Street.

On April 18, 1924, the tunnel was converted to rapid transit, and Maverick station opened. The streetcar loop was between the rapid transit platforms. The last streetcar lines to use the underground loop were the 114, 115, 116, 117, 118 and 121; these last ran January 4, 1952, the day before the Revere Extension to the rapid transit line opened. The streetcar loop and portal have since been closed, with parts of the incline now used for pedestrian access.