Back of the Hill station
Back of the Hill | |||||||||||
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![]() An inbound train at Back of the Hill station in 2011 | |||||||||||
Location | South Huntington Avenue at Back of the Hill Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°19′45.79″N 71°6′39.46″W / 42.3293861°N 71.1109611°WCoordinates: 42°19′45.79″N 71°6′39.46″W / 42.3293861°N 71.1109611°W ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽ | ||||||||||
Owned by | MBTA | ||||||||||
Platforms | None (passengers must wait on sidewalks) | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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History | |||||||||||
Opened | June 26, 1982 | ||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||
Passengers (2011) | 35 (weekday average)[1] | ||||||||||
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Back of the Hill is a surface stop on the light rail MBTA Green Line E branch, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after, and primarily serves, the adjacent Back of the Hill apartment complex, a Section 8 development for elderly and disabled residents. The apartment complex was built in 1980 and opened in 1981; the stop likely opened in 1982 when the line reopened after two years of reconstruction.[2][3][4][5]
Back of the Hill is the least-used stop on the MBTA subway system, averaging only 35 riders per day by a 2011 count. It was one of only four stops to average fewer than 100 riders per day.[1][note 1] Despite this, it is kept open to serve the apartment complex and because of its low operational impact: it only delays riders using adjacent Heath Street and shares its infrastructure with a route 39 stop.[6] Back of the Hill is located on the street running section of the E branch on South Huntington Avenue. The station has no platforms; passengers wait in bus shelters on the sidewalks and cross a traffic lane to reach Green Line trains.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
- ↑ Seidman, Karl; Lee, Tunney; Selinger, Elise (April 2016). From Urban Renewal to Affordable Housing Production System: Boston Mayors and the Evolution of Community Development Corporations in Boston (PDF) (Report). Community Innovators Lab, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. p. 39.
- ↑ "Back of the Hill Apartments to Remain Affordable for Low-Income Seniors and Disabled Residents" (PDF) (Press release). Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency. November 20, 2006.
- ↑ "Mission Hill battle is finally won". Boston Globe. February 15, 1981. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
- ↑ "Back of the Hill Station Neighborhood Map" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. July 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ↑ The others, as of 2014, are Valley Road (44 riders/day), Capen Street (58 riders/day), and Cedar Grove (91 riders/day), all on the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line.
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