Green Street (MBTA station)

GREEN
Green Street station in May 2012
Location	150 Green Street at 380 Amory Street Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°18′37″N 71°06′28″W / 42.3102°N 71.1078°W / 42.3102; -71.1078Coordinates: 42°18′37″N 71°06′28″W / 42.3102°N 71.1078°W / 42.3102; -71.1078
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Orange Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Bicycle facilities	22 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1842 (B&P) 22 September 1912 (Washington Street Elevated) 4 May 1987 (new Orange Line)
Closed	29 September 1940 (NYNH&H) 30 April 1987 (Washington Street Elevated)
Rebuilt	1 June 1897
Previous names	Jamaica Plain (1842-1940)
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	3,618 (weekday average boardings)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Forest Hills Terminus Orange Line Stony Brook toward Oak Grove

Green Street (signed as Green) is a rapid transit station on the MBTA Orange Line, located in the southern part of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Green Street is the lowest-ridership station on the Orange Line, averaging 3,618 weekday boardings in 2013. Like all Orange Line stations, it is fully wheelchair accessible.

In 1841, the Boston and Providence Railroad (built starting in 1832) began offering service to Jamaica Plain station, located on the site of today's Green Street station; commuter rail service to the station would continue, uninterrupted, for nearly a century. Originally, the station was at ground level, but, starting in 1891, the Old Colony Railroad (which had acquired the B&P in 1888, and was itself acquired in 1893 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad) raised the section of its main line through Jamaica Plain (extending from Massachusetts Avenue to the current location of Forest Hills station) onto a 4-track stone embankment to eliminate dangerous grade crossings. The project involved the building of five new stations in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain; the existing stations at Roxbury Crossing, Jamaica Plain, and Forest Hills were replaced with new elevated stations, while new stations were built at Heath Street and Boylston Street. The brand-new Jamaica Plain station opened on June 1, 1897, along with the other four new stations.