Stony Brook (MBTA station)

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Stony Brook
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Boston subway station
Stony Brook
The Stony Brook Station
Basic data
District Jamaica Plain
Opened May 4th 1987
Tracks (platform) 2 (1 central platform )
Coordinates 42 ° 19 '2 "  N , 71 ° 6' 14"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 19 '2 "  N , 71 ° 6' 14"  W
use
Line (s) Orange line
Passengers 3,163 per day

Stony Brook 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 100 Boylston Street at 180 Lamartine Street . The building is completely barrier-free .

As part of the MBTA Arts on the Line project, the ceramic mosaic "Life Around Here" by Malou Flato was installed in the station. In addition, outside the station there are two granite monuments with engraved texts ("Mrs. Baez Serves Coffee on the Third Floor" by Martin Espada and "The Dinner" by Rosario Morales ).

environment

Since line 48 was closed on July 1, 2012, Stony Brook has been one of the few stations without a connection to the MBTA bus routes .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. ( PDF ; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed January 27, 2013 .
  2. ^ Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. ( PDF ; 911 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2013 (English).
  3. ↑ On the Orange Line. ( PDF ; 4.6 MB) Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , accessed January 27, 2013 .

Web links

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