Prudential (MBTA station)
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PRUDENTIAL
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Outbound platform at Prudential station
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| Location | Huntington Avenue near Belvidere Street Back Bay, Boston |
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| Coordinates | 42°20′44″N 71°04′54″W / 42.34556°N 71.08167°WCoordinates: 42°20′44″N 71°04′54″W / 42.34556°N 71.08167°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | MBTA | ||||||||||
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Green Line "E" branch
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | February 16, 1941 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Mechanics | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2013) | 3,643 (weekday average boardings) | ||||||||||
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Prudential is an underground light rail station on the MBTA Green Line "E" branch, located below Huntington Avenue next to the Prudential Tower complex near Belvidere Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Prudential station is fully handicapped accessible, featuring low raised platforms and elevator service to the Huntington Arcade of the Shops at Prudential Center at the base of the Prudential Tower.
The first tracks on Huntington Avenue east of Brigham Circle were laid at least as far as Massachusetts Avenue around 1883. By the time the line was electrified in 1894, tracks were in place on Huntington Avenue all the way to Copley Square. Surface cars were rerouted into the Public Garden Portal when the Tremont Street Subway opened in 1897. By 1903, a service from Park Street to Arborway - the "E" Branch as it would run for eight decades - was fully in place. Service was shifted to the Boylston Street Portal in 1914.
By the 1930s, auto traffic through Copley Square and Boylston Street (which, unlike Huntington Avenue, lacked dedicated medians for trolleys) caused major delays to streetcars. Mechanics station (named for nearby Mechanics Hall) and Symphony station were opened on February 16, 1941, as the two new stations of the Huntington Avenue Subway project. The project was constructed by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and allowed streetcars from Huntington Avenue to go underground through Copley Square, cutting 15 minutes off trip times.
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