Longwood Medical Area station
LONGWOOD | |||||||||||
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Longwood Medical Area station in September 2012 | |||||||||||
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Huntington Avenue at Longwood Avenue Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°20′09″N 71°06′00″W / 42.33595°N 71.10002°WCoordinates: 42°20′09″N 71°06′00″W / 42.33595°N 71.10002°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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Rebuilt | 2001-January 13, 2003[1] | ||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||
Passengers (2011) | 3,813 (daily average boardings)[2] | ||||||||||
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Longwood Medical Area (signed as Longwood) is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "E" Branch, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the named for the adjacent Longwood Medical Area, which is the home of Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. (Brigham Circle, which is one stop further outbound, is actually closer to most of the buildings of Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health.)
Colleges located near the stop include Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). It is also the closest Green Line stop to Boston Latin School.
The station was renamed from Longwood-Hospitals to Longwood Medical Area in the 1980s.[3] The similarly named Longwood station on the D branch of the Green Line is located across the Riverway at the opposite end of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, a cluster of academic and medical facilities that lie along Longwood Avenue.
Longwood Medical Area's 3,813 daily boardings make it the busiest surface stop on the Green Line.[2] The station was made handicapped accessible along with four other E Branch surface stations in a renovation project completed on January 13, 2003.[1]
Bus connections
The station is served by two MBTA Bus routes:
References
- 1 2 "MBTA Short Notes" (PDF). TRANSreport. Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. February 2003. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2011.
- 1 2 "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
- ↑ Prescott, Michael R. (11 October 2009). Boston Transit Equipment 1979-2009. Boston Street Railway Association. p. 60. ISBN 9780938315063.