Waban station

Waban is a surface-level light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line D branch, located just south of Beacon Street at Waban Square in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts. The station is located below grade; access to both platforms is via Wyman Street on the outbound side of the tracks or a stairway from Beacon Street. Waban is not accessible.

This article is about the transit station. For other uses, see Waban (disambiguation).
Waban
An outbound train at Waban station in September 2015
LocationBeacon Street and Waban Square
Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°19′33″N 71°13′50″W
Owned byMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)Highland Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Parking74 spaces ($6.00 fee)
Bicycle facilities12 spaces
History
OpenedJuly 4, 1959[1]
Passengers
2011 daily545[2]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Woodland
toward Riverside
 Green Line Eliot
toward Government Center
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Woodland
toward Riverside
 Highland Branch Eliot
toward Boston

History
Waban station on a 1907 postcard

Waban formerly boasted an H.H. Richardson-designed train station, like those still standing in Newton Highlands and Newton Centre. The original station was completed in August 1886 as part of the Boston and Albany Railroad's Highland Branch and was one of the last stations designed by Richardson before his death in April 1886.[3]

Waban closed along with the rest of the Highland Branch commuter rail line in 1958 and reopened on July 4, 1959 as part of the light rail D Branch. The H.H. Richardson station was demolished in order to build a 57-space parking lot.

The station has two MBTA ticket machines for reloading stored-value CharlieCards and buying CharlieTickets, as well one fare validation machine. All three are enclosed in a heated passenger shed near the center of the inbound platform.

On May 28, 2008, two westbound Green Line trains collided between Waban and Woodland, killing one person.

In 2019, the MBTA indicated that the four remaining non-accessible stops on the D branch were "Tier I" accessibility priorities.[4] As of November 2020, conceptual design for accessibility modifications at the station is complete; design is expected to reach 100% in 2021, followed by construction.[5]

References
  1. Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit.
  2. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  3. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl (June 1988). "Architecture for the Boston & Albany Railroad: 1881-1894". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 47 (2). doi:10.2307/990324. JSTOR 990324.
  4. "Preview of 2019 Recommendations: Presentation to the FMCB" (PDF). Plan for Accessible Transit Infrastructure (PATI). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. April 1, 2019. p. 12.
  5. Brelsford, Laura (November 30, 2020). "System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—November 2020" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. p. 5.


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