Washington Square | |||||||||||
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Location | Beacon Street at Washington Street Brookline, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°20′21.32″N71°8′7.39″W / 42.3392556°N 71.1353861°W | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | MBTA bus: 65 | ||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Rebuilt | c. 2002 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2011 | 1,091 (weekday average boardings) [1] | ||||||||||
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Washington Square station is a surface light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line C branch, located in the median of Beacon Street in the Washington Square neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts. Washington Square is the 4th-busiest surface stop on the line, with 1,091 daily boardings by a 2011 count. [1] The station has two side platforms serving two tracks.
In the early 2000s, the MBTA modified key surface stops with raised platforms for accessibility. The renovation of Washington Square - part of a $32 million modification of thirteen B, C, and E branch stations - was completed by 2003. [2] [3]
The MBTA added wooden mini-high platforms, allowing level boarding on older Type 7 LRVs, at eight Green Line stations in 2006–07 as part of the settlement of Joanne Daniels-Finegold, et al. v. MBTA . Coolidge Corner and Washington Square were originally to have one mini-high platform apiece as well; however, portable lifts were added at the stations instead. [4] [5]
In February 2024, the MBTA indicated long-term plans to replace the existing platforms with longer and less-curved platforms on the west side of Washington Street. [6]
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