Red Line
							Alewife
							Davis
							Porter
							Harvard
							Central
							Kendall/MIT
							Charles/MGH
							Park Street
							Downtown Crossing
							South Station
							Broadway
							Andrew
							JFK/UMass
							Savin Hill
							Fields Corner
							Shawmut
							Ashmont
						High Speed Line to
							Mattapan
							North Quincy
							Wollaston
							Quincy Center
							Quincy Adams
							Braintree

"T" sign and top of glass pyramid from roof-level parking deck of Alewife Station, September 2004

Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Alewife Brook Parkway and Cambridgepark Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local intermodal transportation hub. It is the northern terminus of the Boston subway's Red Line, and a bus terminal for several local routes. It opened on March 30, 1985. Its facilities include: View of Boston from the Red Line The Red Line is the newest of the MBTA rapid transit lines in the Boston, Massachusetts area. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... 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I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... Harvard Station, September 2004 Harvard is a station on the Red Line subway at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... Central Station is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Western Avenue, Prospect Street, and Magazine Street (Central Square), in Cambridge, MA. Its facilities include: a station on the Boston subways Red Line a street-level bus terminal for local routes // Attractions MIT, about a 12-minute walk... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... Kendall/MIT Station, Fall 2004 Kendall/MIT Station is located in Kendall Square at the intersection of Broadway and Main Street, in Cambridge. ... 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File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... Downtown Crossing Station of the MBTA, located at the corner of Washington Street and Summer Street and the corner of Chauncey Street and Summer Street in Boston, is the main transfer point between the Orange Line and the Red Line. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... South Station, located at Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street, in Boston, Massachusetts is a major intermodal transportation hub. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... 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Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and separate busway Fields Corner is a station on the rapid transit Red Line at Fields Corner in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It opened on November 5, 1927, serving as the south end of the line for about a year. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... File links The following pages link to this file: Park Street (MBTA station) Kenmore (MBTA station) South Station (Boston) Airport (MBTA station) Alewife (MBTA station) Harvard (MBTA station) Porter (MBTA station) Davis (MBTA station) Central (MBTA station) Kendall/MIT (MBTA station) Charles/MGH (MBTA station) JFK/UMass (MBTA station) North... 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Braintree Station Braintree Station, located at Ivory and Union Streets in Braintree, Massachusetts 42. ... Alewife Station, MBTA Red Line View of Alewife Station from the top of the Alewife Station parking garage. ... Alewife Station, MBTA Red Line View of Alewife Station from the top of the Alewife Station parking garage. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... One of the challenges of intermodal transport is changing between modes. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is a quasi-governmental organization formed in 1964 that controls the subway, bus, commuter rail, and ferry systems in the Boston, Massachusetts area. ... View of Boston from the Red Line The Red Line is the newest of the MBTA rapid transit lines in the Boston, Massachusetts area. ... 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• A 2595-space multi-level "park and ride" garage, with a direct connection to Route 2 at Exit 61
• Bicycle parking for 174 cycles
• a Zipcar location in the employee parking area
• Connections to the Minuteman Bikeway the Somerville Community Path and the little known Fitchburg Cutoff Rail Trail
• Pedestrian access to East Arlington, via the Minuteman Bike Path and Thorndike Street in Arlington
• A retail area with food and services such as dry cleaning
• Several works of public art commissioned for the station, including carved benches in the passenger pick up area.

a park-and-ride bus in Oxford Park and ride terminals are public transport stations that allow commuters to drive short distances in their personal automobiles to catch a ride on a bus or railroad system (usually classified as light rail or the heavier commuter rail). ... Massachusetts State Highway 2, always referred to simply as Route 2, is a major East-West state highway in Massachusetts. ... Zipcar Corporate Logo. ... The Minuteman Bikeway; is an 11 mile paved, mixed-use recreational Rail Trail and cycle path in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Somerville Community Path is an ambitious project to connect the Minuteman Bikeway and Cambridge Linear Park to the Charles river and downtown Boston. ... Arlington is a town in eastern Massachusetts, six miles northwest of Boston, latitude 42 degrees 25 minutes north, longitude 71 degrees 09 minutes west. ... Public art is art that is exposed in a public space, either an outdoor location or in a publicly accessible building. ...

Terminating MBTA bus routes

• 62 Bedford V.A. Hospital
• 76 Hanscom AFB
• 67 Turkey Hill
• 79 Arlington Heights
• 84 Arlmont Village
• 350 North Burlington
• 351 Oak Park/Bedford Woods

A mounted F-86 Sabre serves as the centerpiece of Hanscom AFB Hanscom Air Force Base, initially and briefly designated Bedford Army Air Base, is a United States Air Force facility in Bedford, Massachusetts. ...

Attractions

Kiss and ride area. Note bicycle parking to the rear

• Alewife Brook Reservation, a wetlands conservation area with walking trails, adjacent to the station on the north side. The station is named after the fish in the reservation's Little River.
• Fresh Pond reservation
• Fresh Pond Shopping Center and cinema
• The Rindge Avenue Extension office park
• Russell Field and Danehy Park

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1638x1005, 546 KB) Passenger dropoff at en:Alewife (MBTA station), en:Cambridge, Massachusetts I took the picture on July 5, 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1638x1005, 546 KB) Passenger dropoff at en:Alewife (MBTA station), en:Cambridge, Massachusetts I took the picture on July 5, 2005. ... Alewife Brook Reservation is a wildlife park which occupies 120 acres in urban Boston. ... A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ... The alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) is a species of small shad. ... General plan for Fresh Pond Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm, 1897. ...

Accessibility

Alewife Station is wheelchair accessible. See MBTA accessibility. As is true for most mass transit systems, much of the Boston subway and commuter rail lines were built before wheelchair access was a requirement. ...

History

High density development at Alewife

Boston transportation planners expected to build an Inner Belt within the Route 128 corridor in the 1970s. Route 2 was designed with eight lanes to carry large volumes of radial traffic to the Inner Belt. When the Inner Belt was canceled, Route 2 became an overbuilt highway that terminated at what was little more than major city streets. When the westward extension of the Red Line was being designed, building a station near the end of Route 2 with a large parking garage seemed like a way to capitalize on the original Route 2 investment. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2002x1286, 650 KB) New development at en:Alewife (MBTA station), en:Cambridge, Massachusetts I took the picture on July 5, 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2002x1286, 650 KB) New development at en:Alewife (MBTA station), en:Cambridge, Massachusetts I took the picture on July 5, 2005. ... The Inner Belt was a project to construct a 6 lane, limited access highway through parts of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville. ... Route 128 is a ring highway with Boston at its center and surrounded by the concentric Interstate 495. ... View of Boston from the Red Line The Red Line is the newest of the MBTA rapid transit lines in the Boston, Massachusetts area. ...

There was little near the site of the Alewife station besides a largely abandoned industrial park, a chemical factory and a protected wetlands. Following principles that came to be known as transit-oriented development, the City of Cambridge zoned the area immediately near the station for high rise buildings and over the next 20 years a mini-city has developed with office and R&D buildings along with high rise housing. Transit-oriented development (TOD) refers to residential and commercial areas designed to maximize access to public transport, and often incorporates features to encourage transit ridership. ...

A state law required planning the Red Line Extension so it could later be brought out to Route 128. The Red line tracks extend past the station, under Route 2, and terminate in a small underground storage yard. When the adjacent chemical plant eventually closed and was replaced by an office development, the rail spur to the plant was no longer needed and its underpass was converted to an access ramp from the station to Route 2.

External links

• Alewife Station website