Pleasant Street station (MBTA)

PLEASANT STREET
Pleasant Street MBTA station
Location Commonwealth Avenue at Pleasant Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′05″N 71°07′08″W / 42.351345°N 71.118783°W / 42.351345; -71.118783Coordinates: 42°21′05″N 71°07′08″W / 42.351345°N 71.118783°W / 42.351345; -71.118783
Owned by MBTA
Line(s)
  Green Line – "B" Branch
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 1,167 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
Green Line
toward Park Street
  Former services  
toward Watertown
Green Line
toward Park Street

Pleasant Street is an aboveground at-grade station on the Green Line "B" Branch of the MBTA subway system in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located in the median of Commonwealth Avenue, on the western side of its intersection with Harry Agganis Way (on the north side) and Pleasant Street (on the south side, extending into Brookline). It serves the western end of the John Hancock Student Village at Boston University.

Pleasant Street is the sixth station for outbound "B" Branch trains, after the Blandford Street Incline and the branch's split from the "C" and "D" Branches at Kenmore. It was also a station on the "A" Branch to Watertown Yard until that branch closed in 1969.

Stop consolidation

In October 2014, the MBTA began holding meetings for a proposal to consolidate four stops - Boston University West, St. Paul Street, Pleasant Street, and Babcock Street - located near Boston University's West Campus. The four stops, which are not handicapped accessible, would be turned into two fully accessible stops as part of a planned redesign of Commonwealth Avenue between the BU Bridge and Packard's Corner.[2] Pleasant Street and Babcock Street stations would be consolidated into one station in the block between the two streets.[3]

Work was delayed by the need to complete other roadwork on Commonwealth Avenue. As of December 2016, MassDOT expected to issue a change order in 2017 to assign station construction work to the roadwork contractor.[4]

Station layout

G
Street/Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound ← "B" Branch toward Boston College (Babcock Street)
Inbound → "B" Branch toward Park Street (St. Paul Street) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Bus connections

References

  1. ↑ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  2. ↑ "Comm. Ave. Green Line Improvements Public Meeting". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
  3. ↑ O'Rourke, John (23 October 2014). "T May Eliminate Two Green Line B Stops". BU Today. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Brelsford, Laura (December 5, 2016). "MBTA System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives: December 2016 Update" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. p. 22.
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