Riverside (MBTA station)

RIVERSIDE
Green Line trains at Riverside in October 2011
Location	331 Grove Street off Route 128/I-95, Newton
Coordinates	42°20′14″N 71°15′08″W / 42.3372°N 71.2521°W / 42.3372; -71.2521Coordinates: 42°20′14″N 71°15′08″W / 42.3372°N 71.2521°W / 42.3372; -71.2521
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Green Line "D" branch
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA Bus: 558
Construction
Parking	925 spaces ($6.00 fee) 21 accessible spaces
Bicycle facilities	48 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	4 July 1959
Traffic
Passengers (2011)	2,241 (daily boardings)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Terminus Green Line "D" Branch Woodland toward Government Center

Riverside is the western terminus of the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch (Highland Branch) light rail line. It is located at 333 Grove Street, off Exit 22 on Interstate 95 (Route 128), in Auburndale, a village of Newton, Massachusetts. Scheduled travel time to Park Street is 46 minutes. Riverside includes a parking lot with spaces for 925 automobiles and bicycle parking. A loop allows trolleys to reverse direction for the trip back to Boston and storage tracks and the Riverside Carhouse are connected to the loop. The station is fully handicapped accessible.

Riverside station is home to a scale model of the dwarf planet Pluto in the Boston Museum of Science's community-wide solar system model.

Through 1958, when the Highland Branch was served by the Boston and Albany Railroad, Riverside station was at the junction between the Highland Branch and the B&A main line. The MTA built a large commuter parking lot with a new brick station at the center and opened the branch to streetcar service on July 4, 1959. In 1995, new elevated platforms were built at the north end of the yard and the 1959-built station used as a bus terminal. The 1995-built platforms were raised slightly above track level; these made the station handicapped accessible when low-floor trolleys arrived in 2002.