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Park Street station is an MBTA subway station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the intersection of Park Street and Tremont Street at the eastern edge of Boston Common in Downtown Boston. One of the two oldest stations on the "T", Park Street is the transfer point between the Green and Red Lines, as one of the quartet of "hub stations" on the MBTA subway system. Park Street is the fifth-busiest station in the MBTA network, with an average of 16,571 entries each weekday in FY2019.
Physical accessibility of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority system is incomplete. As is true for most mass transit systems, much of the Boston subway and commuter rail lines were built before wheelchair access was a requirement under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The MBTA has renovated most stations to become compliant with the ADA, and all stations built since 1990 are accessible. The MBTA also has a paratransit program, The Ride, which provides accessible vehicles to transport passengers who cannot use the fixed-route system.
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North Station is an underground MBTA subway station in Boston, Massachusetts. Served by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Green Line and Orange Line, it is connected to the North Station surface terminal used by MBTA Commuter Rail and Amtrak. The station is fully accessible.
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- ↑ "Elevator Status". Bay Area Rapid Transit . Retrieved 2022-01-21.
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- ↑ "Connecticut Department of Transportation Policy Statement" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Transportation . Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ↑ "Harvard Square elevator opens to the public". Mott MacDonald . Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ↑ "These Metro stations have backup elevators". Greater Greater Washington. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
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