Alewife (MBTA station)

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Alewife
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Cambridge Tube Station
Alewife
View into the station building
Basic data
Opened March 30, 1985
Tracks (platform) 2 ( central platform )
Coordinates 42 ° 23 '47 "  N , 71 ° 8' 31"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 23 '47 "  N , 71 ° 8' 31"  W
use
Line (s) _ Red Line
Passengers 10,657 per day

Alewife is the name of a metro station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Cambridge in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It is the northern terminus of the Red Line subway line . The station was named after the river herring (English Alewife ), which occurs in the waters of the nearby Alewife Brook Reservation .

history

The station opened on March 30, 1985. The Boston traffic planners originally planned in the 1970s to build an Inner Belt Expressway on the Massachusetts Route 128 route . The Massachusetts Route 2 was therefore created eight lanes and leads from the Alewife Brook Parkway by Cambridge and Somerville to the Inner Belt . However, this was never built, so Route 2 was little more than a very wide road with relatively little traffic. With the western extension of the Red Line , the terminus with a large parking garage was created at the end of this street, in order at least in this way to benefit from the excessive street capacity. In the course of time, a district of its own with skyscrapers and office buildings developed around the formerly lonely station, so that Route 2 is also used more than it was a few years ago.

Railway systems

Track, signal and security systems

The underground station has a total of two tracks, which are accessible via a central platform .

building

The underground station is located at 11 Cambridgepark West and is completely barrier-free . In contrast to most of the other MBTA stations, the Eurostile font is used for the lettering inside the building instead of Helvetica .

As part of the Arts on the Line program , six works of art were installed in the station:

  • A 3 acres (12,000 m²) artificial landscape with a pond and granite blocks by Richard Fleischner
  • A total of 200  ft (61  m ) light blue tiles with abstract designs by David Davidson
  • The mural “Alewife Cows” by Joel Janowitz shows a false, painted exit with a view of a pasture with grazing cows
  • Two sculptures by William Keyser, Jr. that can be used as bench seats
  • The work of art "The End of the Red Line" by Alejandro and Moira Sina consists of 1,000 neon tubes that are installed above one of the tracks under the ceiling
  • 100 square tiles with motifs of plants and animals from the Alewife Brook Reservation by Nancy Webb are distributed throughout the building

environment

Access to the station from the top parking deck

Is a connection to eight at the station bus lines of the MBTA, bus lines of World Wide bus with destination New York City and three shuttle lines of Route 128 Business Council , the companies on the routes 2 and 128 approach. There are also 2,733 paid park and ride parking spaces as well as 500 bicycle parking spaces (300 of which are in closed areas).

In the immediate vicinity of the station are the protected areas Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond as well as the Minuteman Bikeway .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed on February 14, 2013 .
  2. ^ Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. ( PDF ; 911 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on February 14, 2013 (English).
  3. ^ Arts on the Line. Alewife Station. (No longer available online.) Cambridge Arts Council, archived from the original on August 6, 2012 ; accessed on September 25, 2018 (English).
  4. ^ Sarah Thomas: NYC-bound buses will roll from Newton, Cambridge. In: The Boston Globe . October 19, 2010, accessed February 14, 2013 .
  5. ^ Shuttles & Schedules. (No longer available online.) Route 128 Business Council, archived from the original on January 21, 2013 ; Retrieved September 25, 2018 (English, further links select Alewife Shuttle ... ).

Web links

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