Aquarium (MBTA station)

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Aquarium
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Boston subway station
Aquarium
Blue Line platform
Basic data
District Financial District
Opened April 5, 1906
Newly designed 1924, 2004
Tracks (platform) 2 (2 side platforms )
Coordinates 42 ° 21 '33 "  N , 71 ° 3' 11"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '33 "  N , 71 ° 3' 11"  W.
use
Line (s) _ Blue line
Passengers 4,444 per day

Aquarium is a name from the New England Aquarium named metro station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston District Financial District in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It is located in close proximity to the ferry terminal Long Wharf and offers access to the line Blue Line .

history

A tram in the station shortly after it opened in 1906

Atlantic Avenue Elevated , which opened in 1901, had a stop on State Street . The East Boston Tunnel opened in 1904, followed by the Aquarium station in 1906 - albeit under the name Atlantic Avenue - and connected the elevated railway with the tunnel. On February 13, 1967, the station was renamed Aquarium as part of the takeover by the MBTA .

Railway systems

Track, signal and security systems

The underground station has a total of two tracks that are accessible via two side platforms .

building

The metro station is located at the address 183 State Street and is completely barrier-free accessible. As the only underground station of the MBTA, the underground structure has comparatively high, vaulted ceilings, like those of the Métro Paris or the Washington Metro . Aquarium is the deepest subway station on the Blue Line , as it sits at a point in the East Boston Tunnel that runs under Boston Harbor . Only the Porter station on the Red Line in Cambridge is even lower .

environment

There is a connection to a bus line at the station and four MBTA ferry lines at the nearby Long Wharf .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed February 3, 2013 .
  2. ^ Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. ( PDF ; 912 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2013 (English).

Web links

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