Broadway (MBTA station)

BROADWAY
The island platform at Broadway Station, tracks are to left and right of the parallel rows of columns
Location	Intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway, South Boston, MA
Coordinates	42°20′34″N 71°03′26″W / 42.3429°N 71.0572°W / 42.3429; -71.0572Coordinates: 42°20′34″N 71°03′26″W / 42.3429°N 71.0572°W / 42.3429; -71.0572
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Red Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA Bus: 9, 11, 47
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	December 15, 1917
Traffic
Passengers (2009 daily)	4,200
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station South Station toward Alewife Red Line Andrew toward Ashmont or Braintree
Location

Broadway is a station on the Red Line subway at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway in South Boston, Massachusetts. It was opened on December 15, 1917 as part of the Dorchester Extension of the "Cambridge Connection" from Downtown Crossing (formerly Washington station) to Andrew. The station has a single island platform to serve the two tracks. Broadway was planned to be a stop on the Urban Ring Project, which is currently shelved due to lack of funding.

After the Cambridge Tunnel was completed between Harvard and Park Street in 1912, work began to extend the line south to Dorchester. Rather than being opened all at once, the second section was opened station-by-station as soon as possible due to popularity. Extensions opened to Washington (Downtown Crossing) in 1915, South Station Under in 1916, and to Broadway on December 15, 1917. Broadway was the southern terminus of the line until Andrew opened on June 29, 1918. With the exception of Park Street - which was built with three platforms to handle crowds - Broadway was the only station on the original Cambridge-Dorchester Tunnel with an island platform (rather than two side platforms) in order to facilitate transfers through its three levels. Not until Columbia and Savin Hill opened in 1927 were there other island platforms used on the line.

Broadway station was originally built as a three-level station, with six stairways to allow easy transfer between streetcars and subway trains. Some streetcars stopped at a surface-level platform, others in a tunnel just below ground, while subway trains used the lowest-level tunnel. Each level consisted of two tracks and an island platform. The street-level platform served streetcars that ran from the Tremont Street Subway to City Point and South Boston via the Pleasant Street Portal and Broadway, on the #9 streetcar line. Buses replaced the single line to Bay View (which originally used the middle-level tunnel) in 1929, but the City Point line lasted until March 1, 1953 before being bustituted.