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词条 Prudential station
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  1. History

  2. Station layout

  3. Bus connections

  4. References

  5. External links

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| name=Prudential
| style=MBTA green
| image=Prudential outbound.JPG
| image_caption=Outbound platform at Prudential station
| address=Huntington Avenue near Belvidere Street
Back Bay, Boston
| coordinates = {{coord|42|20|44|N|71|04|54|W|display=inline,title|type:railwaystation}}
| line={{rail color box|system=MBTA|line=Green|note="E" branch}}
| other=
| platform=2 side platforms
| tracks=2
| parking=
| bicycle=
| passengers=3,643 (weekday average boardings)[1]
| pass_year=2013
| pass_percent=
| opened=February 16, 1941[2]
| rebuilt=
| ADA=yes
| code=
| owned=MBTA
| former=Mechanics
| zone=
| services={{s-rail|title=MBTA}}{{s-line|system=MBTA|line=Green|branch=E|previous=Symphony|next=Copley}}
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Prudential is an underground light rail station on the MBTA Green Line "E" branch, located below Huntington Avenue next to the Prudential Tower complex near Belvidere Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Prudential station is fully handicapped accessible, featuring low raised platforms and elevator service to the Huntington Arcade of the Shops at Prudential Center at the base of the Prudential Tower.

History

The first tracks on Huntington Avenue east of Brigham Circle were laid at least as far as Massachusetts Avenue around 1883.[3] By the time the line was electrified in 1894, tracks were in place on Huntington Avenue all the way to Copley Square. Surface cars were rerouted into the Public Garden Portal when the Tremont Street Subway opened in 1897. By 1903, a service from Park Street to Arborway - the "E" Branch as it would run for eight decades - was fully in place.[2] Service was shifted to the Boylston Street Portal in 1914.

By the 1930s, auto traffic through Copley Square and Boylston Street (which, unlike Huntington Avenue, lacked dedicated medians for trolleys) caused major delays to streetcars. Mechanics station (named for nearby Mechanics Hall) and Symphony station were opened on February 16, 1941, as the two new stations of the Huntington Avenue Subway project.[3] The project was constructed by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and allowed streetcars from Huntington Avenue to go underground through Copley Square, cutting 15 minutes off trip times.[2]

Mechanics station was renamed Prudential on December 3, 1964 upon completion of the Prudential Tower.[3]

For many years, Prudential and Symphony were MBTA standard fare control stations like other underground stations in the system. However, as a cost-cutting measure they were changed to be the only two underground stops on the Green Line where riders paid upon boarding the train, rather than when entering the station. This was changed again in June 2006, when the MBTA installed the Charlie Card / Charlie Ticket electronic fare collection system at Prudential and Symphony, allowing fares to be paid at the station entrances as with other underground stations on the system.

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Station layout

GStreet levelExit/Entrance
P
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Green}}>OutboundGreen}}>"E" Branch toward Heath (Symphony)
Inbound "E" Branch toward Lechmere (Copley)
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Bus connections

Prudential is served by two local MBTA Bus routes:

  • 39 Forest Hills Station - Back Bay Station via Huntington Avenue
  • 55 Jersey & Queensberry via Copley Square & Ipswich Sttreet

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/documents/2014%20BLUEBOOK%2014th%20Edition.pdf |title=Ridership and Service Statistics |edition=14 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |year=2014 |accessdate=26 June 2014}}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.jphs.org/transportation/streetcars-in-jamaica-plain-a-history.html |title=Streetcars in Jamaica Plain: A History |publisher=Jamaica Plain Historical Society |newspaper=Jamaica Plain Gazette |author=Greer, Michael |date=6 December 2002 |accessdate=9 August 2013}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.transithistory.org/roster/MBTARouteHistory.pdf|title=Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district |last=Belcher |first=Jonathan |date=23 March 2013 |format=PDF |publisher=NETransit |accessdate=9 August 2013}}

External links

{{Commons category|Prudential (MBTA station)}}
  • MBTA - Prudential
  • [https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3458074,-71.0813036,3a,55.2y,161.28h,86.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swQ2SeyLTy_PNndHOukKIpQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Newton Street / Belvidere Street entrance from Google Maps Street View]
{{MBTA|state=collapsed}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Prudential (Mbta Station)}}

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