Jackson Square (MBTA station)

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Jackson Square
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Boston subway station
Jackson Square
The Orange Line platform
Basic data
District Jamaica Plain
Opened May 4th 1987
Tracks (platform) 2 (1 central platform )
Coordinates 42 ° 19 '22 "  N , 71 ° 5' 59"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 19 '22 "  N , 71 ° 5' 59"  W
use
Line (s) _ Orange line
Passengers 4,968 per day

Jackson Square is the name of a subway station owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It provides access to the subway line Orange Line .

history

The station opened on May 4, 1987 as part of the renovation and relocation of the Orange Line parallel to the Northeast Corridor .

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 subway station is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood at 1500 Columbus Avenue at 240 Center Street . The building is completely barrier-free .

As part of the MBTA Arts on the Line project, several large-format graphic illustrations by the artist group Hyde Square Task Force and MBTA Community Art Program with muralist Roberto Chao as well as the metal sculpture "Faces In the Crowd" by Linda and James Toatley were installed in the station . In addition, there are two granite monuments with engraved texts outside the station ("Any Good Throat" by Christopher Gilbert and "Grandmothers" by Christine Palamidessi Moore ).

environment

There is a connection to five MBTA bus routes at the station.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed on January 26, 2013 .
  2. ^ Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. ( PDF ; 911 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on January 26, 2013 (English).
  3. ↑ On the Orange Line. ( PDF ; 4.6 MB) Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , accessed January 26, 2013 .

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