Melnea Cass Boulevard station explained

Melnea Cass Boulevard
Style:MBTA
Style2:Silver
Coordinates:42.3329°N -71.081°W
Other: MBTA bus:
Passengers:466 (weekday average boardings)
Pass Year:2012
Opened:July 20, 2002
Accessible:Yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:bus
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Melnea Cass Boulevard station is a street-level bus station on the Washington Street branch of the MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit service. It is located on Washington Street at Melnea Cass Boulevard in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The stop is served by the SL4 and SL5 Silver Line routes; several local MBTA bus routes stop nearby. Like all Silver Line stops, Melnea Cass Boulevard is accessible.

Silver Line service on Washington Street began on July 20, 2002, replacing the route 49 bus. Service levels doubled on October 15, 2009, with the introduction of the SL4 route.

Washington Street was a proposed stop on the Urban Ring – a circumferential bus rapid transit (BRT) line designed to connect the existing radial MBTA rail lines to reduce overcrowding in the downtown stations.[1] Under draft plans released in 2008, buses would have run in dedicated lanes on Melnea Cass Boulevard, with platforms at Washington Street. A spur of the Urban Ring would have run on Washington Street to .[2] The project was cancelled in 2010.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20110708181035/https://www.commentmgr.com/projects/1169/docs/URnews0105c.pdf . July 8, 2011 . Urban Ring Phase 2 Fact Sheet . January 2009.
  2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170514232004/http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/theurbanring/downloads/Plan_Profile_Drawings.pdf . May 14, 2017 . The Urban Ring Phase 2: Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report/Statement . Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation . November 2008.
  3. Web site: Re: Urban Ring Phase 2, EOEEA #12565 . January 22, 2010 . Mullan . Jeffery B. . Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.