Roxbury Crossing (MBTA station)

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Roxbury Crossing
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Boston subway station
Roxbury Crossing
The Orange Line platform
Basic data
District Mission Hill
Opened May 4th 1987
Tracks (platform) 2 (1 central platform )
Coordinates 42 ° 19 '53 "  N , 71 ° 5' 44"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 19 '53 "  N , 71 ° 5' 44"  W.
use
Line (s) Orange line
Passengers 3,693 per day

Roxbury Crossing is the name of a subway station owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston district of Mission Hill 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 in the Mission Hill neighborhood at 1400 Tremont Street . The building is completely barrier-free .

As part of the MBTA's Arts on the Line project, the work of art “Neighborhood” by Susan Thompson , consisting of five colored canvases, was installed in the station . In addition, there are two granite monuments with engraved texts outside the station (“At Roxbury Crossing” by Jeannette DeLello Winthrop and “Hometown” by Luix Virgil Overbea ).

environment

There is a connection to ten MBTA bus routes at the station. The Roxbury Community College is in the immediate vicinity .

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 .

Web links

Commons : Roxbury Crossing station  - collection of images
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