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Museum of Fine Arts
An outbound train at Museum of Fine Arts station in 2019
General information
Location	Huntington Avenue at Ruggles Street Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′16″N 71°05′44″W / 42.337674°N 71.095533°W / 42.337674; -71.095533
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA bus: 8, 19, 39, 47, CT2, CT3
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Rebuilt	2001–January 13, 2003
Previous names	Ruggles Street, Ruggles-Museum, Museum, Museum/Ruggles
Passengers
2011	1,683 (weekday average)
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station Longwood Medical Areatoward Heath Street Green LineE branch Northeastern Universitytoward Medford/​Tufts
Location

Museum of Fine Arts is a surface-level light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line E branch, located the median of Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, between Museum Road and Ruggles Street. The station is named after the adjacent Museum of Fine Arts, although it also provides access to Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Museum of Fine Arts station is accessible.

History

Until the completion of the Huntington Avenue subway from Copley to a portal near Opera Place on February 16, 1941, streetcars ran on the surface from the Boylston Street portal. Like other surface stops on the median-reservation section of the line, Ruggles Street station had bare asphalt platforms. In 1972, the MBTA began planning a reconstruction of that section of the line, then scheduled for 1973–74. The work was eventually done in 1980, when the line was closed to modify the track and wires for the new LRVs. The line was cut back to Symphony on March 21, 1980; it was re-extended to Northeastern (using LRVs) on June 21 and Brigham Circle on September 20.

The station was originally known as Ruggles Street or Ruggles–Museum. After nearby Ruggles station opened in 1987, the station was called Museum (sometimes Museum/Ruggles). The name was changed to Museum of Fine Arts in the 1990s.

In the early 2000s, the MBTA modified key surface stops with raised platforms for accessibility as part of the Light Rail Accessibility Program. Portable lifts were installed at Museum of Fine Arts around 2000 as a temporary measure. The platforms were later lengthened and repaved with concrete; temporary platforms to the northeast were used during the renovations. That renovation – part of a $32 million modification of thirteen B, C, and E branch stations – was completed on January 13, 2003. Around 2006, the MBTA added a wooden mini-high platform on the outbound side, allowing level boarding on older Type 7 LRVs. These platforms were installed at eight Green Line stations in 2006–07 as part of the settlement of Joanne Daniels-Finegold, et al. v. MBTA.

References

1. ^ "MBTA Short Notes" (PDF). TRANSreport. Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. February 2003. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2011.
2. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
3. ^ Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
4. "Surface Lines Report". Rollsign. Vol. 9, no. 8/9. Boston Street Railway Association. August–September 1972. Via Tremont Street Subway NHL documentation
5. Prescott, Michael R. (11 October 2009). Boston Transit Equipment 1979–2009. Boston Street Railway Association. p. 60. ISBN 9780938315063.
6. "Executive Summary" (PDF). Program of Mass Transportation. Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. January 2004. pp. 2–9. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2012.
7. "Subway Map" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 1, 2001.
8. "Planned Accessibility Projects – On Board the Green Line". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 10, 2004.
9. "Settlement Agreement" (PDF). Joanne Daniels-Finegold et al. v. MBTA. April 10, 2006. pp. 10–11.
10. "Green Line Stations Upgraded to Improve Accessibility" (PDF). TRANSReport. Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. June 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2011.

External links

Media related to Museum of Fine Arts station (MBTA) at Wikimedia Commons

• MBTA Green Line – Museum of Fine Arts
• Google Maps Street View: Museum Road entrance, Ruggles Street entrance

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