Packards Corner (MBTA station)

PACKARDS CORNER

Station platforms facing outbound in November 2011
Location Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue
Coordinates 42°21′7.51″N 71°7′29″W / 42.3520861°N 71.12472°W / 42.3520861; -71.12472Coordinates: 42°21′7.51″N 71°7′29″W / 42.3520861°N 71.12472°W / 42.3520861; -71.12472
Owned by MBTA
Line(s)
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections MBTA Bus: 57, 57A
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 2,654 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
Green Line
toward Park Street
  Former services  
Green Line
Closed 1969
toward Park Street

Packards Corner (announced as Brighton Avenue/Packards Corner) is a station on the MBTA Green Line "B" Branch located at Packard's Corner - the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue - in Allston, Massachusetts. The station is located in a median between the westbound through and parking lanes of Commonwealth Avenue.

History

The Green Line "A" Branch formerly diverged just north of the platforms; its trolleys stopped at a separate Packards Corner stop at Malvern Road. The "A" Branch was closed on June 21, 1969, though it was kept intact for non-revenue moves to Watertown Yard.[2] The line was finally abandoned in 1994; a several-hundred-foot stub track was left until the mid-2000s to temporarily store disabled trains. The switch and the last few feet of track were not disconnected until track work in 2014.

Station layout

G
Street/Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound "B" Branch toward Boston College (Harvard Avenue)
Inbound "B" Branch toward Government Center (Babcock Street)
Side platform, doors will open on the right

References

  1. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  2. Belcher, Jonathan (27 June 2015). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2015" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 18 November 2015.

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