Davis (MBTA station)

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Davis
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Somerville underground station
Davis
Red Line platform
Basic data
Opened December 8, 1984
Tracks (platform) 2 ( central platform )
Coordinates 42 ° 23 '48 "  N , 71 ° 7' 21"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 23 '48 "  N , 71 ° 7' 21"  W
use
Line (s) _ Red Line
Passengers 11,628 per day

Davis is the name of a metro station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Somerville in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It provides access to the Red Line subway line . The station was named after the Massachusetts family of the same name, who have held political offices in New England for over 200 years .

history

The station opened on December 8, 1984.

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 metro station is located at the intersection of College Avenue , Elm Street and Holland Street and is completely barrier-free accessible.

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

  • The work "Ten Figures" by James Tyler consists of ten life-size figures made of concrete , which are distributed near the entrances across Davis Square .
  • 249 tiles designed by schoolchildren adorn a wall on the mezzanine floor of the ward and were arranged by Jack Gregory and Joan Wyezum for the work “Children's Tile Mural”. In 2009, some local artists went looking for the children, who were already between 35 and 40 years old at the time, in order to find out their associated story.
  • Lines of poems are embedded in the floor in various places, which together form the work “Poetry” and come from different authors.
  • The work "Sculpture With a D" by Sam Gilliam consists of a large, abstract sculpture .

environment

There is a connection to six MBTA bus routes at the station. There are also 165 bicycle parking spaces available.

Tufts University and Davis Square are in the immediate vicinity of the station .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed February 17, 2013 .
  2. ^ Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. ( PDF ; 911 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2013 (English).
  3. ↑ Cambridge Public Art. ( PDF ; 790 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 9, 2013 ; accessed on September 25, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ 249 tiles. The Davis Square Tiles Project, accessed February 17, 2013 .

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