St. Mary's Street station explained

St. Mary's Street
Style:	MBTA
Style2:	Green
Coordinates:	42.3459°N -71.1074°W
Address:	Beacon Street at St. Mary's Street
Other:	MBTA bus:
Platform:	2 side platforms
Tracks:	2
Bicycle:	10 spaces
Passengers:	1,532 (weekday average boardings)
Pass Year:	2011
Rebuilt:	2002
Accessible:	Yes
Mapframe:	yes
Mapframe-Marker:	rail-light
Mapframe-Zoom:	14

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.

History

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 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.^{[1] [2]} 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.^{[3] [4]}

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.^{[5] [6]} The ramp was removed in July 2020 during a track reconstruction project.^[7]

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.^[8]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120220063458/http://www.bostonmpo.org/bostonmpo/pmt-old/PMT-1.pdf . February 20, 2012 . Executive Summary . Program of Mass Transportation . January 2004 . Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization . 29.
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20010701041753/http://www.mbta.com/text-only/schedmaps/map/map.pdf . July 1, 2001 . Subway Map . 2001 . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
3. Book: https://archive.org/stream/ridershipservice2003mass#page/n45/mode/2up . Ridership and Service Statistics . 2.19 . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority . October 2003 . Subway Service . Internet Archive.
4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20040810020602/http://www.mbta.com/insidethet/3_GreenLine.asp . August 10, 2004 . Planned Accessibility Projects - On Board the Green Line . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
5. Web site: Settlement Agreement . Joanne Daniels-Finegold et al. v. MBTA . April 10, 2006 . 10–11.
6. Web site: Green Line Stations Upgraded to Improve Accessibility . https://web.archive.org/web/20110116153104/http://ctps.org/bostonmpo/4_resources/2_transreport/archive/trpt0607.pdf . June 2007 . TRANSReport . Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization . January 16, 2011.
7. Building a Better T: Green Line C Branch Track Improvements and Intersection Upgrades Accelerated, Kenmore – Cleveland Circle Work Begins Evening of July 5 . June 24, 2020 . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
8. Web site: Green Line C Branch Accessibility Upgrades . February 15, 2024 . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.