Maverick station (known as Maverick Square) is a

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station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the

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's Blue Line and is located at

Maverick Square Maverick Square is a section of the neighborhood of East Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is East Boston's oldest commercial center. At the heart of the square is Maverick Station, which is part of the Blue Line of the MBTA. In ...

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. It is the easternmost underground station on the Blue Line and a transfer point to various buses. A center island platform provides access to the surface in the middle of Maverick Square. In the station, a track map lined with light bulbs shows the position of the trains on the Blue Line between Bowdoin and

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. It was one of the last stations to be converted to 6-car train service as part of the MBTA's Blue Line Renovation Project.

History

When the

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originally opened on December 30, 1904, it was a

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tunnel with a portal at Maverick, known as Maverick portal or the Maverick incline. There was no station at Maverick; streetcars simply left the portal and continued north on Meridian Street or southeast on Maverick Street. On April 18–21, 1924, the tunnel was converted to

and Maverick station opened, with the streetcar loop between the rapid transit platforms. The last streetcar lines to use the underground loop were the , , , , and ; these last ran January 4, 1952, the day before the Revere Extension to the rapid transit line opened. The streetcar loop and portal have since been closed, with parts of the incline now used for pedestrian access. The station has an extra-wide platform as a result of filling in the former streetcar tracks. The abandoned streetcar loop west of the station remains extant. The MBTA began design work of a renovation of the station in 1998. A $30.8 million construction contract, which also included ventilation work in the East Boston Tunnel, was awarded on May 5, 2005. Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony on October 4, 2005. The work included extension of the platforms for six-car trains, replacement of the Maverick Square headhouse, addition of a new headhouse on Lewis Mall, and the creation of a dedicated busway in Maverick Square. Both headhouses included an elevator to make the station fully

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. The Lewis Mall headhouse opened on September 22, 2007, allowing the old Maverick Square headhouse to be demolished that November. The renovation was completed in 2009. The final cost was $56.3 million, which included $12.4 million in change orders – of which $8.9 million was due to design errors by the MBTA.

Bus connections

MBTA route 116 bus at Maverick station, August 2015

The station is a terminal for five

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local routes: *:

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–Maverick station *: –Maverick station via Revere Street *: Wonderland station–Maverick station via Beach Street *:

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–Jeffries Point *:

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–Maverick station

References

External links

MBTA – Maverick
*Google Maps Street View
Maverick Square headhouseLewis Mall headhouse
{{MBTA Subway Stations Blue Line (MBTA) stations East Boston Railway stations located underground in Boston Railway stations in the United States opened in 1904