St. Marys Street station

ST. MARY'S
An outbound train at St. Marys Street station in May 2011
Location Beacon Street at St. Mary's Street
Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°20′45.40″N 71°6′26.58″W / 42.3459444°N 71.1073833°W / 42.3459444; -71.1073833Coordinates: 42°20′45.40″N 71°6′26.58″W / 42.3459444°N 71.1073833°W / 42.3459444; -71.1073833
Owned by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)
  Green Line "C"
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections MBTA Bus: CT2, 47
Construction
Bicycle facilities 10 spaces
Disabled access Yes
History
Rebuilt 2002
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 1,532 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
Green Line

St. Marys Street (signed as St. Mary's) is a surface light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "C" Branch, located just west of the intersection of Beacon Street and Park Drive in the northeastern tip of Brookline, Massachusetts. Like all surface stops on the line, St Marys Street consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. The station is fully handicapped accessible.

With just over 1,500 daily boardings by a 2011 count, St. Marys Street is the second-busiest stop on the "C" Branch, behind only Coolidge Corner.[1]

Station layout

G
Street/
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound ← "C" Branch toward Cleveland Circle (Hawes Street)
Inbound → "C" Branch toward North Station (Kenmore) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

History and operations

An inbound streetcar enters the newly built portal in 1932

St. Marys Street is the first outbound surface stop on the "C" Branch. The line emerges from the Beacon Street tunnel at the St. Marys Street portal, just east of the station. Until Kenmore was built in 1932, streetcars emerged from the Kenmore portal and ran down the median of Beacon Street from Kenmore Square.

St. Marys Street became fully handicapped accessible after work done under the Light Rail Accessibility Program in 2002.

Bus connections

No MBTA Bus routes run parallel to the line on Beacon Street. Two routes run via Park Drive, stopping just north of Beacon Street a block away from the station:

References

  1. 1 2 "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
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