Washington Square is a surface light rail stop on the

MBTA The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The MBTA transit network in ...

Green Line C branch, located in the median of

Beacon Street Beacon Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts and its western suburbs Brookline and Newton. It passes through many of Boston's central and western neighborhoods, including Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway–Kenmore, the Boston Uni ...

in the Washington Square neighborhood of

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. Washington Square is the 4th-busiest surface stop on the line, with 1,091 daily boardings by a 2011 count. The station has two

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s serving two tracks.

History

Boston Boeing LRV 3463 on Beacon St crossing Washington St in 1987

In the early 2000s, the MBTA modified key surface stops with raised platforms for

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. The renovation of Washington Square - part of a $32 million modification of thirteen B, C, and E branch stations - was completed by 2003. The MBTA added wooden mini-high platforms, allowing level boarding on older Type 7 LRVs, at eight Green Line stations in 2006–07 as part of the settlement of '' Joanne Daniels-Finegold, et al. v. MBTA''. and Washington Square were originally to have one mini-high platform apiece as well; however, portable lifts were added at the stations instead.

References

External links

MBTA - Washington SquareStation from Washington Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Green Line (MBTA) stations Railway stations in Brookline, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-railstation-stub