Back of the Hill | |||||||||||
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Location | South Huntington Avenue at Back of the Hill Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°19′45.79″N 71°6′39.46″W / 42.3293861°N 71.1109611°W | ||||||||||
Platforms | None (passengers wait on sidewalk) | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | MBTA bus: 39 | ||||||||||
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Accessible | No | ||||||||||
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Opened | c. 1982 | ||||||||||
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2011 | 35 (weekday average) [1] | ||||||||||
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Back of the Hill station is a surface stop on the light rail MBTA Green Line E branch, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after, and primarily serves, the adjacent Back of the Hill apartment complex, a Section 8 development for elderly and disabled residents. Back of the Hill is located on the street running section of the E branch on South Huntington Avenue. The station has no platforms; passengers wait in bus shelters (shared with route 39 buses) on the sidewalks and cross a traffic lane to reach Green Line trains. [2]
The Boston Elevated Railway opened streetcar tracks on the newly-laid-out South Huntington Avenue between Centre Street and Huntington Avenue on May 11, 1903. The company began Jamaica Plain–Park Street service via South, Centre, South Huntington, and Huntington as a branch of existing Boston–Brookline service on Huntington Avenue. [3] [4]: 61 All Huntington Avenue service (except for Northeastern University and Brigham Circle short turns) operated on South Huntington after September 10, 1938. [5] The line became part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1947, and part of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 1967; it was designated as the E Branch of the MBTA Green Line in 1967. [6]
By the 1970s, E Branch trains stopped at Riverway and Heath Street, with no stop between them. [7] The Back of the Hill apartment complex, located just north of Heath Street, was built in 1980 and opened in 1981. [8] [9] [10] The E Branch was closed for track work from June 21, 1980, to June 26, 1982; trains began stopping at Back of the Hill then or after. [6]
Back of the Hill is the least-used stop on the MBTA subway system, averaging only 35 riders per day by a 2011 count. It was one of only four stops to average fewer than 100 riders per day. [1] [note 1] In 2021, the MBTA indicated plans to modify the Heath Street–Brigham Circle section of the E branch with accessible platforms to replace the existing non-accessible stopping locations. [11] The new platforms are planned to be long enough to accommodate two 110-foot (34 m) Type 10 vehicles. Design work began in July 2023 and is expected to reach 15% completion in May 2024. [12]
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