Kent Street | |||||||||||
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Location | Beacon Street and Kent Street Brookline, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°20′39″N71°06′50″W / 42.344125°N 71.113885°W | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 staggered side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Closed | 2026 (planned) | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2011 | 386 (weekday average boardings) [1] | ||||||||||
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Kent Street station is a light rail surface stop on the MBTA Green Line C branch, located in the median of Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The two side platforms are staggered on opposite sides of the Kent Street / Powell Street grade crossing; the outbound platform is to the east and the inbound platform to the west. Kent Street is not accessible.
Track work in 2018–19, which included replacement of platform edges at several stops, triggered requirements for accessibility modifications at those stops. [2] Design work for Kent Street and seven other C Branch stations was 15% complete by December 2022. [3] Plans shown in February 2024 called for Kent Street station to be closed, as it is just 830 feet (250 m) from both St. Paul Street and Hawes Street stations. [4] In May 2024, the Federal Transit Administration awarded the MBTA $67 million for the platform projects. [5] As of June 2024 [update] , construction of the C Branch platform project is expected to be complete in fall 2026. [6]
The C branch, also called the Beacon Street Line or Cleveland Circle Line, is one of four branches of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line light rail system in the Boston, Massachusetts metropolitan area. The line begins at Cleveland Circle in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston and runs on the surface through Brookline along the median of Beacon Street. Reentering Boston, the line goes underground through the Saint Mary's Street incline and joins the B and D branches at Kenmore. Trains run through the Boylston Street subway to Copley where the E branch joins, then continue through the Tremont Street subway to downtown Boston. The C branch has terminated at Government Center station since October 2021.
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