City Point (MBTA station)

City Point Station
Coordinates	42°20′18.59″N 71°1′54.92″W / 42.3384972°N 71.0319222°W / 42.3384972; -71.0319222
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Silver Line BERy and M.T.A. streetcar lines
Construction
Parking	none
Bicycle facilities	none
History
Opened	December 31, 2004
Closed	1953 (streetcar lines) 2008 (Silver Line)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station East 1st St./M St. toward South Station Silver Line Terminus

City Point was a transportation station in South Boston, Massachusetts, on the MBTA's Silver Line, the terminus of the former SL3 line. It lacked waiting facilities for passengers, and existed solely as a turnaround for the buses on the SL3.

The station was closed when the SL3 line was dropped in 2008 due to low ridership.

Old geographic map of the Silver Line showing the SL3 (lower right). The SL4 route shown never ran; the current SL4 mostly parallels SL5.

The City Point area is still served by the #5, 7, 9, 10 and 11 buses, all of which terminate at City Point Bus Terminal on East 1st Street between M and N streets. All except the #5 were formerly streetcar routes. Service was converted to bus on the 7,9, and 10 in 1953; they were some of the last Boston-area streetcar lines to be bustituted, and the #9 was the second-to-last line (the other being the #43) to serve the Pleasant Street Portal. Streetcars last ran on the #11 in 1929.^[1][2]

Until October 1985, when the modern turnaround loop was built, service ran to the former carhouse location at East 2nd Street and O Street.^[3]

See also

• Silver Line (MBTA)
• MBTA bus routes in South Boston

References

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