Harvard (MBTA station)

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Harvard
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Cambridge Tube Station
Harvard
Entrance building of the station
Basic data
Opened March 12, 1912
Newly designed September 6, 1983
Tracks (platform) 2 (2 side platforms )
Coordinates 42 ° 22 '26 "  N , 71 ° 7' 8"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 22 '26 "  N , 71 ° 7' 8"  W.
use
Line (s) _ Red Line
Passengers 21,868 per day

Harvard is the name of a subway station owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Cambridge in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It offers on Harvard Square access to line Red Line .

history

There were already five Red Line stations below and near Harvard Square . The first opened on March 23, 1912 and closed on January 30, 1981. Today's Harvard Bus Tunnel runs through part of the old station. Station Stadium , which opened in October 1912, was located above ground west of the corner of what is now JFK Street and Memorial Drive , but was only used on special occasions such as The Game football event and closed on November 18, 1967.

Two temporary stops were used during the construction phase of today's station. The Harvard / Brattle station consisted of little more than two platforms between three tracks. It existed from March 24, 1979 to September 1, 1983. From January 31, 1981 to September 1, 1983, the Harvard / Holyoke station was also used, the platform of which can still be seen today.

Railway systems

Track, signal and security systems

The underground station has two tracks. Since the Red Line trains run on two different levels, the associated side platforms are also not on the same level.

building

The metro station is located at the address 1400 Massachusetts Avenue at 1 Brattle Street and is completely barrier-free accessible.

environment

At the station there is a connection to 14 bus lines of the MBTA, in addition there are 21 parking spaces for bicycles. Harvard University , Harvard Yard , Harvard Art Museums , Harvard Semitic Museum , Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology and Harvard Museum of Natural History are all within walking distance . Also nearby are the Cambridge Public Library , Lesley College , Longy School of Music of Bard College , Episcopal Divinity School , Cambridge Rindge and Latin School , American Repertory Theater , Cooper-Frost-Austin House , Hooper -Lee-Nichols House and the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site .

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

  • The work "Gateway to Knowledge" by Anne Norton consists of a more than 20 ft (6.1 m) high brick structure, which is vertically separated in the middle by a column, but closed at the top.
  • A group of pillars made of granite forms the work of art "Omphalos" by Dimitri Hadzi .
  • György Kepes installed a wall made of cobalt blue lead glass that separates the Harvard Bus Tunnel from the central atrium of the station and called his work “Blue Sky”. A red line has been worked into the glass, which decorates it along its entire length.
  • Joyce Kozloff's “New England Decorative Art” consists of an 83 ft (25.3 m) long mosaic divided into eight sections, each representing a bedspread.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed on February 24, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Gerry O'Regan: MBTA Red Line. nycsubway.org, accessed February 24, 2013 .
  3. ^ A b Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. ( PDF ; 911 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on February 24, 2013 (English).
  4. ^ Red Line Northwest Extension Pamphlet page 5. The Davis Square Tiles Project, accessed February 24, 2013 .

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