St. Marys Street (MBTA station)
ST. MARYS STREET | |||||||||||
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An outbound train at St. Marys Street station | |||||||||||
Location | Beacon Street at St. Mary's Street, Brookline, MA | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°20′45.40″N 71°6′26.58″W / 42.3459444°N 71.1073833°WCoordinates: 42°20′45.40″N 71°6′26.58″W / 42.3459444°N 71.1073833°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Bicycle facilities | 10 spaces | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2002 | ||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||
Passengers (2009) | 1,970 (daily boardings)[1] | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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St. Marys Street is a surface stop on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's light rail Green Line "C" Branch, located just west of the intersection of Beacon Street and Park Drive in the northeastern tip of Brookline, Massachusetts. Like all surface stops on the line, St Marys Street consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. The station is fully handicapped accessible.
With almost 2000 daily boardings, St. Marys Street is the second-busiest stop on the "C" Branch, behind only Washington Square.[1]
Station layout
G Street/ Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Outbound | ← "C" Branch toward Cleveland Circle (Hawes Street) | |
Inbound | → "C" Branch toward North Station (Kenmore) → | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right |
History and operations
St. Marys Street is the first outbound surface stop on the "C" Branch. The line emerges from the Beacon Street tunnel at St. Marys Street portal, just east of the station. Until Kenmore was built in 1932, streetcars emerged from the Kenmore portal and ran down the median of Beacon Street from Kenmore Square.
St. Marys Street became fully handicapped accessible after work done under the Light Rail Accessibility Program in 2002.
Bus connections
No MBTA Bus routes run parallel to the line on Beacon Street. Two routes run via Park Drive, stopping just north of Beacon Street a block away from the station:
- 47 Central Square, Cambridge - Broadway Station via B.U. Medical Center, Dudley Station & Longwood Medical Area
- CT2 Sullivan Station - Ruggles Station via Kendall/MIT
References
- 1 2 "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
External links
- MBTA - St. Marys Street
- Media related to St. Marys Street (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Station from Google Maps Street View