Back of the Hill station

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
An inbound train at Back of the Hill station in 2011
LocationSouth Huntington Avenue at Back of the Hill
Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°19′45.79″N 71°6′39.46″W
Owned byMBTA
PlatformsNone (passengers must wait on sidewalks)
Tracks2
Connections MBTA bus: 39, 192
History
OpenedJune 26, 1982
Traffic
Passengers (2011)35 (weekday average)[1]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Heath Street
Terminus
 Green Line
E branch
 Riverway
toward North Station

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
  1. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  2. 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.
  3. "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.
  4. "Mission Hill battle is finally won". Boston Globe. February 15, 1981. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit.
  6. "Back of the Hill Station Neighborhood Map" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. July 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  1. 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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