Melnea Cass Boulevard station

Melnea Cass Boulevard is a street-level bus station on the Washington Street branch of the MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit service. It is located on Washington Street at Melnea Cass Boulevard in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The stop is served by the SL4 and SL5 Silver Line routes; a number of local MBTA bus routes stop nearby. Like all Silver Line stops, Melnea Cass Boulevard is accessible.

Melnea Cass Boulevard
The northbound Silver Line shelter at Melnea Cass Boulevard
Location	Washington Street at Melnea Cass Boulevard Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42.3329°N 71.0810°W / 42.3329; -71.0810
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Connections	MBTA bus: CT3, 1, 8, 19, 47, 170, 171, 191
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	July 20, 2002[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	466 (weekday average boardings)[2]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station Nubian Terminus Silver Line SL4 Lenox Street toward South Station Silver Line SL5 Lenox Street toward Downtown Crossing

Silver Line service on Washington Street began on July 20, 2002, replacing the route 49 bus. Service levels doubled on October 15, 2009 with the introduction of the SL4 route.[1]

References

1. Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit.
2. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.

External links

Media related to Melnea Cass Boulevard station at Wikimedia Commons

• MBTA: Washington St @ Melnea Cass Blvd northbound and southbound