Airport (MBTA station)

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Boston subway station
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Blue Line platform
Basic data
District East Boston
Opened 5th January 1952
Newly designed June 3, 2004
Tracks (platform) 2 (2 side platforms )
Coordinates 42 ° 22 '22 "  N , 71 ° 1' 55"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 22 '22 "  N , 71 ° 1' 55"  W
use
Line (s) _ Blue line
Passengers 6,901 per day

Airport Station is a subway station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston borough of East Boston in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It offers at Logan International Airport Access Line Blue Line .

history

The station was first opened on January 5, 1952, at the beginning of the 21st century for 23 million US dollars 500  ft (152.4  m ) east of the original building built.

Railway systems

Track, signal and security systems

The underground station has a total of two tracks that are accessible via two side platforms . At the Airport station, the Blue Line vehicles switch from the power supply via the overhead contact line to the conductor rail and vice versa.

building

The metro station is located very close to the airport at the Porter Street and is completely barrier-free access, the station all the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act fulfilled.

environment

Is at the station a connection to several shuttle buses to the MBTA, the airport, among others, with the ferries of Massport connect as well as the station with the terminals, where connection to the Silver Line is.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed February 5, 2013 .
  2. ^ Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. ( PDF ; 911 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (English).

Web links

Commons : Airport station (MBTA)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
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