Tufts Medical Center (MBTA station)

Tufts Medical Center (formerly New England Medical Center) is an MBTA rapid transit station located along Boston's Orange Line subway and Silver Line bus rapid transit system.

It is named for Tufts Medical Center and is built under a wing of the facility that crosses over Washington Street in downtown Boston between Kneeland Street in Chinatown and the Massachusetts Turnpike.

The structural shell of the station was built in the late 1960s during what were to be the early stages of the abandoned Interstate 695 project, in anticipation of the future relocation of the Washington Street Elevated. The interior of the station was not finished, and equipment was not installed until the station was put into service in 1987. The station was originally named "New England Medical Center", but was renamed in early 2010 after New England Medical Center changed its name to "Tufts Medical Center".

Artwork

The modern artwork displayed beside each of the two escalators to the train platforms was installed circa 1990 and consists of painted aluminum shapes that are the result of what the artist, Richard Gubernick, called "high-class doodling". According to Gubernick, who also has artwork displayed in LaSalle Station in Buffalo, New York:

"A lot of people ask me, does it move? Does it move? well, it looks like it does, but it doesn't....If you move it, you bought it."^[1]

Bus connections

• 11 City Point - Downtown via Bayview
• 43 Ruggles Station - Park Street & Tremont Street via Tremont Street

Accessibility

The Tufts Medical Center station is fully wheelchair accessible.

References

External links

• Washington Street entrance from Google Maps Street View