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State station (also called State Street) is an underground Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) rapid transit station located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the transfer point between the Orange Line and the Blue Line , and one of four "hub stations" on the MBTA subway system.
[citation needed] (See MBTA History and MBTA Future plans sections.) Streetcar congestion in downtown Boston led to the creation of underground subways and elevated rail, the former in 1897 and the latter in 1901. The Tremont Street subway was the first rapid transit tunnel in the United States and had a 24/7 service. [4]
State Street station in 1921. Construction of the Atlantic Avenue Elevated began on January 21, 1901. [7]: 8 The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) opened the line on August 22, 1901, including a stop at State Street. [8] Like the other four stations on the line, State Street had a single elevated island platform with a single mezzanine underneath.
The West End Street Railway was renamed the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy), and undertook several such projects. Boston's subway was the first in the United States and is often called "America's First Subway" by the MBTA and others. [8] In 1897 and 1898, the Tremont Street subway opened as the core of the precursor to the Green Line. [9]
Since 1904, the State Street MBTA station has occupied part of the building's basement. The East Boston Tunnel opened in 1904, now called the Blue Line, and the Washington Street Tunnel opened in 1908, now part of the Orange Line. [25] The Boston Marine Museum occupied rooms borrowed from the Bostonian Society from 1909 to 1947. [26]
A streetcar at Atlantic Avenue (now Aquarium) station in 1906. The East Boston Tunnel under Boston Harbor was the first North American subway tunnel to run beneath a body of water when it opened in 1904, [2] and the second underwater vehicular tunnel of significant length built in the United States.
Transportation in Boston includes roadway, subway, regional rail, air, and sea options for passenger and freight transit in Boston, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) operates the Port of Boston , which includes a container shipping facility in South Boston , and Logan International Airport , in East Boston .
Museum of Fine Arts is a surface-level light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line E branch, located the median of Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, between Museum Road and Ruggles Street. The station is named after the adjacent Museum of Fine Arts , although it also provides access to Northeastern University , Wentworth Institute of ...