Melnea Cass Boulevard station is a street-level bus station on the Washington Street branch of the MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit service. It is located on Washington Street at Melnea Cass Boulevard in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The stop is served by the SL4 and SL5 Silver Line routes; several local MBTA bus routes stop nearby. Like all Silver Line stops, Melnea Cass Boulevard is accessible.
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 The northbound Silver Line shelter at Melnea Cass Boulevard | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Washington Street at Melnea Cass Boulevard Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°19′58″N 71°04′52″W / 42.3329°N 71.0810°W | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |  MBTA bus: 1, 8, 19, 47, 171, CT3 | ||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 20, 2002[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| 2012 | 466 (weekday average boardings)[2] | ||||||||||||||
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Silver Line service on Washington Street began on July 20, 2002, replacing the route 49 bus. Service levels doubled on October 15, 2009, with the introduction of the SL4 route.[1]
Washington Street was a proposed stop on the Urban Ring – a circumferential bus rapid transit (BRT) line designed to connect the existing radial MBTA rail lines to reduce overcrowding in the downtown stations.[3] Under draft plans released in 2008, buses would have run in dedicated lanes on Melnea Cass Boulevard, with platforms at Washington Street. A spur of the Urban Ring would have run on Washington Street to Dudley Square.[4] The project was cancelled in 2010.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
- ^ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
- ^ "Urban Ring Phase 2 Fact Sheet" (PDF). January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2011.
- ^ "The Urban Ring Phase 2: Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report/Statement" (PDF). Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 14, 2017.
- ^ Mullan, Jeffery B. (January 22, 2010). "Re: Urban Ring Phase 2, EOEEA #12565" (PDF). Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
External links
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Media related to Melnea Cass Boulevard station at Wikimedia Commons
- MBTA: Washington St @ Melnea Cass Blvd northbound and southbound
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