Encyclopedia > Back Bay (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)
Back Bay Station, located at 145 Dartmouth Street, between Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue, in Back Bay, Boston, is an important transportation center. Its facilities include:
a station stop on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor train service, including Acela high-speed trains. There is also a daily Amtrak overnight train (Lake Shore Limited)to Chicago.
a station stop on the Boston subway's Orange Line.
local bus service.
staffed ticket windows.
a food court and waiting area.
Back Bay Station opened May, 1987 as part of the Orange Line's Southwest Corridor project and was dedicated by Governor Michael Dukakis.
Note: Amtrak's trains to Maine do not stop at Back Bay or South Station. They terminate at North Station, which is also on the Orange Line. Travelers who wish to make a connection by subway with North Station are best off exiting at Back Bay and taking the Orange Line.
Other Amtrak stations on the Northeast Corridor are generally accessible.
Back Bay Station has a full length high level platform for Amtrak Northeast Corridor and MBTA Attleboro/Providence trains but only a short high level platform for MBTA Framingham/Worcester and Amtrak Chicago trains (which operate on different tracks).
Some MBTA commuter rail stations have no wheelchair access and many of those that do have short high level platforms that only serve one or two cars.
The MassachusettsBayTransportationAuthority (MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1] formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA area.
The outer routes to the north and south were bought from the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway in 1968, and the west suburban routes in 1972 from the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway (note: both of these companies had long since ceased running any streetcar service).
Massachusetts agreed to build several transit projects as remediation for the environmental impacts of the Big Dig.
The peninsula was connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, and surrounded by the waters of MassachusettsBay and the marshes at the mouth of the Charles River.
Much of the BackBay and South End are built on reclaimed land—two and a half of Boston's three original hills were used as a source of material for landfill.
BackBay is also the home of two of New England's tallest buildings: the John Hancock Tower and the Prudential Center.
Feeds |
Contact