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Mattapan bus loop. Mattapan (/ ˈ m æ t ə p æ n /) is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Mattapan is the original Native American name for the Dorchester area, [1] possibly meaning "a place to sit." [2] At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480, with the majority of its population immigrants.
There was a debate at that time whether or not to continue subway trains from Boston to Ashmont onwards to Mattapan, but the cost of full-scale subway service was apparently too high for the Boston Elevated Railway which then operated it. The line opened from Ashmont to Milton on August 26, 1929, and from Milton to Mattapan on December 21, 1929 ...
Mattapan station is an MBTA light rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the southern terminus of the Mattapan Line , part of the Red Line , and is also an important MBTA bus transfer station, with eight routes terminating there.
The color-branded lines consist of three heavy rail lines (Red, Orange, and Blue), one branched light rail system , and a short light rail line (the Mattapan Line, colored as part of the Red Line). All except the Ashmont–Mattapan line operate in tunnels in the downtown area, but no route operates entirely underground, and only 31 out of the ...
The buildings at 825–829 Blue Hill Avenue are historic apartment buildings in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The three-story Colonial Revival masonry structures were designed by Samuel Levy and built in 1924 for Herman Barron, during a period in which Boston's Jewish population migrated to the area in large numbers from downtown Boston.
Blue Hill Avenue station is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Fairmount Line located in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The station consists of a center island platform between the line's two tracks, with handicapped-accessible ramps to Blue Hill Avenue and Cummins Highway.
Mattapan Yard at Mattapan: Mattapan Line: maintenance and storage North Station Yard at North Station: Green Line: layover and storage Orient Heights Yard east of Orient Heights: Blue Line: maintenance and storage Reservoir Yard between Reservoir and Cleveland Circle: Green Line (C branch and D branch) maintenance and storage Riverside Yard at ...
Capen Street station is a light rail station in Milton, Massachusetts.It serves the MBTA Mattapan Line.It is located on Capen Street off Eliot Street; the westernmost of the four MBTA stations in Milton, it consists of two side platforms flanking the eponymous street's grade crossing.