Butler (MBTA station)

BUTLER
Outbound PCC car stopped at Butler
Location	Butler Street and Branchfield Street Boston, MA
Coordinates	42°16′20″N 71°03′45″W / 42.272253°N 71.062453°W / 42.272253; -71.062453Coordinates: 42°16′20″N 71°03′45″W / 42.272253°N 71.062453°W / 42.272253; -71.062453
Line(s)	Red Line– Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1929
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	143 (weekday inbound average)[1]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Cedar Grove toward Ashmont Red Line Mattapan High Speed Line Milton toward Mattapan

Butler is a station on MBTA's Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line, a branch of the Red Line. The station is located at Butler Street and Branchfield Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Butler consists of one island platform which serves the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line's two tracks; it is the only station on the line with an island platform.^[2] Sixty free parking spaces for passengers are available at the station. The station opened in 1929 when the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line began operation. Butler was closed on June 24, 2006, for a yearlong renovation of the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line. It reopened with the rest of the line on December 22, 2007.

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Media related to Butler (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

• MBTA - Butler Station
• Station from Google Maps Street View

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Subway lines (List of stations) Heavy rail      Blue      Orange      Red Light rail      Green "B" Branch "C" Branch "D" Branch "E" Branch      Ashmont–Mattapan      Commuter Rail lines (List of stations) North Station lines Fitchburg Haverhill (Wildcat Branch) Lowell Newburyport/Rockport South Station lines Fairmount Framingham/Worcester Franklin Greenbush Needham Old Colony (Kingston/Plymouth Middleborough/Lakeville      CapeFLYER) Providence/Stoughton Bus routes (List of routes)      Silver Crosstown routes Key routes Trackless trolleys Routes East Boston, Chelsea, Revere Melrose, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield South Boston Other services      Boat The Ride Component parts of system lines      Boylston Street Subway      Haymarket North Extension      Lechmere Viaduct      Tremont Street Subway      Washington Street Subway Under construction           Government Center closure      Green Line Extension      South Coast Rail      Wachusett extension Proposed      Lynn extension           Red Line—Blue Line Connector Urban Ring Project      North–South Rail Link      Plaistow extension      Nashua extension      Westerly extension      Indigo Line (Fairmount Grand Junction Track 61) History Predecessor companies Boston Elevated Railway Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Newton and Boston Street Railway Former lines      Atlantic Avenue Elevated      Causeway Street Elevated      Charlestown Elevated      Green Line "A" Branch      Lexington Branch Streetcar lines      Washington Street Elevated      Woburn Loop      History of the Green Line Other Accessibility Arts on the Line "Charlie on the M.T.A." CharlieCard Police Nomenclature Yards and maintenance facilities