Packards Corner (MBTA station)

PACKARDS CORNER

Station platforms facing outbound in April 2015
Location Commonwealth Avenue at Brighton Avenue
Allston, Boston, Massachusetts
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)
  Green Line– "B" Branch
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  
toward Watertown
Green Line
Closed 1969
toward Park Street

Packards Corner (announced as Brighton Avenue/Packards Corner) is a station on the MBTA's Green Line "B" Branch located at Packard's Corner - the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue - in Allston, Boston, 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

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Street/Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound ← "B" Branch toward Boston College (Harvard Avenue)
Inbound → "B" Branch toward Park Street (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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