St. Mary's Street station

St. Mary's Street station 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 Mary's Street has two side platforms serving two tracks. The station is accessible. With just over 1,500 daily boardings by a 2011 count, St. Mary's Street is the second-busiest stop on the C branch, behind only Coolidge Corner.^[1]

St. Mary's Street
An outbound train at St. Mary's Street station in May 2011
General information
Location	Beacon Street at St. Mary's Street Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′45.40″N 71°6′26.58″W
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA bus: 47, CT2
Construction
Bicycle facilities	10 spaces
Accessible	Yes
History
Rebuilt	2002
Passengers
2011	1,532 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station Hawes Street toward Cleveland Circle Green Line C branch Kenmore toward Government Center
Location

History

An inbound streetcar enters the newly built portal in 1932

St. Mary's Street is the first outbound surface stop on the C branch. The line emerges from the Beacon Street tunnel at the St. Mary's 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.

In the early 2000s, the MBTA modified key surface stops with raised platforms for accessibility. Portable lifts were installed at St. Mary's Street around 2000 as a temporary measure.^[2][3] The renovation of St. Mary's Street - part of a $32 million modification of thirteen B, C, and E branch stations - was completed in 2003.^[4][5]

In 2007, the MBTA added a wooden mini-high platform on the outbound side, allowing level boarding on older Type 7 LRVs. These platforms were installed at eight Green Line stations in 2006–07 as part of the settlement of Joanne Daniels-Finegold, et al. v. MBTA.^[6][7] The ramp was removed in July 2020 during a track reconstruction project.^[8]

In February 2024, the MBTA indicated long-term plans to possibly move the platforms slightly west, with entrances added at Carlton Street. This would allow the platforms to be straighter and the inbound platform to be wider.^[9]

References

1. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
2. "Executive Summary" (PDF). Program of Mass Transportation. Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. January 2004. p. 2-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2012.
3. "Subway Map" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 1, 2001.
4. "Subway Service". Ridership and Service Statistics. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. October 2003. p. 2.19 – via Internet Archive.
5. "Planned Accessibility Projects - On Board the Green Line". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 10, 2004.
6. "Settlement Agreement" (PDF). Joanne Daniels-Finegold et al. v. MBTA. April 10, 2006. pp. 10–11.
7. "Green Line Stations Upgraded to Improve Accessibility" (PDF). TRANSReport. Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. June 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2011.
8. "Building a Better T: Green Line C Branch Track Improvements and Intersection Upgrades Accelerated, Kenmore – Cleveland Circle Work Begins Evening of July 5" (Press release). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. June 24, 2020.
9. "Green Line C Branch Accessibility Upgrades" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. February 15, 2024.

External links

Media related to St. Mary's Street station at Wikimedia Commons

• MBTA - St. Marys Street
• Station from Google Maps Street View