Packards Corner station

Packards Corner (announced as Brighton Avenue/Packards Corner) is a station on the MBTA's Green Line B branch located at Packard's Corner - the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue - in Allston, Boston, Massachusetts. The station is located in a median between the westbound travel lanes and frontage road of Commonwealth Avenue.

Packards Corner
An inbound train at Packards Corner station in 2018
LocationCommonwealth Avenue at Brighton Avenue
Allston, Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°21′7.51″N 71°7′29″W
Owned byMBTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections MBTA bus: 57, 57A, 193
Traffic
Passengers (2011)2,654 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Harvard Avenue
toward Boston College
 Green Line Babcock Street
toward Park Street
Former services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Fordham Road
(station closed 2004)
toward Boston College
 Green Line Babcock Street
toward Park Street
Union Square
toward Watertown
 Green Line
(closed 1969)
 Alcorn Street
toward Park Street

History

The Green Line A branch formerly diverged just north of the platforms; its trolleys stopped at separate Packards Corner platforms on Brighton Avenue. The Brighton Avenue streetcar reservation was removed from July 1 to October 5, 1949, and the side platforms for the Watertown Line were replaced with an island platform.[2] The A branch was closed on June 21, 1969 and replaced with the route 57 bus, though the trackage was retained for non-revenue moves to Watertown Yard.[3] The line was finally abandoned in 1994; a several-hundred-foot stub track was left until the mid-2000s to temporarily store disabled trains. The switch and the last few feet of track were not disconnected until track work in 2014.

Packards Corner was not made accessible during the initial 2001–03 round of Green Line station renovations. In 2019, the MBTA listed Packards Corner as a "Tier I" accessibility priority.[4]

  • Watertown Line (future A branch) platforms in 1948
  • A Boston College-bound (future "B" Branch) train at Packards Corner in 1965
  • Former A branch turnout switch in 2011

References
  1. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  2. Clarke, Bradley H. (2003). Streetcar Lines of the Hub - The 1940s. Boston Street Railway Association. p. 110. ISBN 0938315056.
  3. Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit.
  4. "Preview of 2019 Recommendations: Presentation to the FMCB" (PDF). Plan for Accessible Transit Infrastructure (PATI). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. April 1, 2019. p. 12.

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