Cedar Grove station

Cedar Grove is a light rail station on the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line (part of the MBTA Red Line) located in the southern part of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The station, named for the adjacent Cedar Grove Cemetery, has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. It is accessible via wooden ramps on both platforms.

For the station in Minnesota, see Cedar Grove Transit Station.
Cedar Grove
An outbound streetcar at Cedar Grove in 2018
LocationFellsway Street and Milton Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°16′47″N 71°03′37″W
Line(s)Shawmut Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Disabled accessYes
History
Opened1929
Passengers
201091 (weekday inbound average)[1]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Butler
toward Mattapan
 Ashmont–Mattapan High-Speed Line Ashmont
Terminus

The station agent died of rabies in November 1908 after being bitten by a dog which had found its way into the station.[2]

Cedar Grove was closed on June 24, 2006, for a yearlong renovation of the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line. It was reopened on December 22, 2007.[3]

References
  1. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  2. "Due to Hydrophobia". Boston Globe. November 30, 1908. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit.

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