Riverway station is a
light rail station on the
MBTA
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E branch, located at the intersection of South Huntington Avenue and
Huntington Avenue in
Boston, Massachusetts, slightly east of
Brookline Village
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. The station is named for the
Riverway parkway which runs on an overpass just to the west.
The station is located on a
street running
A street running train is a train which runs on a track built on public streets. The rails are embedded in the roadway, and the train shares the street with other users, such as pedestrians, cars and cyclists, thus often being referred to as r ...
segment of the E branch; trains run in mixed traffic rather than a dedicated median. The station has no platforms; riders wait on the sidewalks (shared with bus stops for the route 39 bus) and cross the street to reach trains. Because of this, the station is not accessible. In 2021, the MBTA indicated plans to modify the Heath Street–Brigham Circle section of the E branch with accessible platforms to replace the existing non-accessible stopping locations.
Riverway is also the closest surface transfer between the
D and E branches of the Green Line;
Brookline Village station is about to the west.
References
External links
MBTA – RiverwayStation from Google Maps Street View
Green Line (MBTA) stations
Railway stations in Boston
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