College Avenue station (MBTA)

COLLEGE AVENUE
Future station site with early construction work in December 2017
Location College Avenue at Boston Avenue
Medford, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°24′29.35″N 71°7′2.37″W / 42.4081528°N 71.1173250°W / 42.4081528; -71.1173250Coordinates: 42°24′29.35″N 71°7′2.37″W / 42.4081528°N 71.1173250°W / 42.4081528; -71.1173250
Owned by MBTA
Line(s) Medford Branch
Platforms 1 island platform (Green Line)
Tracks 2 (Lowell Line)
2 (Green Line)
Construction
Bicycle facilities "Pedal and Park" bicycle cage
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened September 15, 1977 (Lowell Line)[1]
2021[2] (Green Line - planned)
Closed October 1979 (Lowell Line)[3]
Previous names College Hill (until c. 1900)
Tufts College (until 1958)
Tufts University (1977–1979)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
toward Riverside
Green Line
Starting 2021
Terminus
  Proposed services  
toward Riverside
Green Line
Terminus
  Former services  
Terminus
Lowell Line
Stop closed 1979
toward Lowell or Woburn

College Avenue is a planned light rail station on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch, to be located at College Avenue next to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. It will be the northern terminus of the "D" Branch and is the final station on the second phase of the Green Line Extension.[4][5] College Avenue will consist of one island platform, which will serve the "D" Branch's two tracks.

Previous commuter rail stations on what is now the Lowell Line were located nearby from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century, and from 1977 to 1979.

History

Commuter rail stations

Tufts University station with a Budd RDC in September 1977

The Boston and Lowell Railroad opened their namesake line in 1835, though local stops were not added immediately. By 1889, College Hill station was located on the north side of the tracks just west of College Avenue.[6] By 1900, College Hill was replaced with Tufts College station, located on the opposite side of the tracks and slightly to the south at Pearson Street.[7] Horsecars, and later streetcars consolidated under the Boston Elevated Railway, cut sharply into local railroad traffic. On April 18, 1958, the Public Utilities Commission approved a vast set of cuts to Boston and Maine Railroad commuter service, including the closure of North Somerville, Tufts College, and Medford Hillside stations.[8] The three stations were closed on May 18, 1958, amid the first of a series of cuts.[9]

On September 15, 1977, the MBTA opened Tufts University station near the Tufts College station site.[3][1] It was abandoned in October 1979 due to poor ridership.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 1977 Annual Report. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 1977.
  2. ↑ Dungca, Nicole (December 7, 2016). "New Green Line stations are delayed until 2021". Boston Globe. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Belcher, Jonathan (December 31, 2017). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2017" (PDF). NETransit.
  4. ↑ "MBTA Light Rail Transit System OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE PLAN" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Travel Forecasts: Systemwide Stats and SUMMIT Results" (PDF). Green Line Extension Project: FY 2012 New Starts Submittal. Massachusetts Department of Transportation. January 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Part of Medford". Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Geo. H. Walker & Co. 1889. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Index Map to the Cities of Everett, Malden, and Medford". Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. George W. Stadley & Co. 1900. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Drastic Service Cuts Approved on Five B.& M. Divisions". Daily Boston Globe. 19 April 1958 – via Proquest Historical Newspapers. (Subscription required (help)).
  9. ↑ Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. p. 57. ISBN 9780685412947.
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