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Alewife
MBTA subway station

"T" sign and top of glass pyramid from roof-level parking deck of Alewife Station
Station statistics
Address11 Cambridgepark Dr, Cambridge, MA 02140
Lines
Red Line
Platforms1 center island
Parking2,595 space garage
Bicycle facilities174 spaces
Other information
OpenedMarch 30, 1985
AccessibleHandicapped/disabled access
Owned byMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Services
Preceding station  MBTA Following station
TerminusRed Line
toward Ashmont or Braintree

Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Alewife Brook Parkway and Cambridgepark Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local intermodal transportation hub. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway or metro(politan system is an electric passenger railway The Red Line is a Rapid transit line operated by the MBTA running roughly north-south through Boston Massachusetts into neighboring communities The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Red Line is a Rapid transit line operated by the MBTA running roughly north-south through Boston Massachusetts into neighboring communities Davis station is located at the intersection of Holland Street Elm Street and College Avenue ( Davis Square) in Somerville Massachusetts. Ashmont is located on the Red Line in Dorchester Massachusetts. Braintree Station, located at Ivory and Union Streets in Braintree Massachusetts, is the southernmost station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 's Alewife Brook Parkway is a short Parkway in Cambridge Massachusetts. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. Intermodal passenger transport involves more than one Mode of transport of passengers It is the northern terminus of the MBTA's Red Line, and a bus terminal for several local routes. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Red Line is a Rapid transit line operated by the MBTA running roughly north-south through Boston Massachusetts into neighboring communities It opened on March 30, 1985. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Its facilities include:[1]

Contents

Terminating bus routes

Attractions

Accessibility

Alewife Station is wheelchair accessible. Fresh Pond is a reservoir and park in Cambridge Massachusetts, at. See MBTA accessibility. Handicap Accessibility on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA or "the T" system is limited but improving

History

Boston transportation planners expected to build an Inner Belt within the Route 128 corridor in the 1970s. The Inner Belt in Boston was a planned 6-lane limited-access Highway which would have run through parts of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge Route 128, also known as the Yankee Division Highway (for the 26th Infantry Division) and originally the Circumferential Highway, is a partial Route 2 was designed with eight lanes to carry large volumes of radial traffic to the Inner Belt. When the Inner Belt was canceled, Route 2 became an overbuilt highway that terminated at what was little more than major city streets. When the westward extension of the Red Line was being designed, building a station near the end of Route 2 with a large parking garage seemed like a way to capitalize on the original Route 2 investment. The Red Line is a Rapid transit line operated by the MBTA running roughly north-south through Boston Massachusetts into neighboring communities

There was little near the site of the Alewife station besides a largely abandoned industrial park, a chemical factory and a protected wetlands. Following principles that came to be known as transit-oriented development, the City of Cambridge zoned the area immediately near the station for high rise buildings. TOD in cities Many cities in the USA and Canada are developing TOD policy Over the next 20 years, a mini-city developed with office and research and development buildings, along with high rise housing. The phrase research and development (also R and D or more often R&D) according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers

A state law required planning the Red Line Extension so it could later be brought out to Route 128 to Bedford. The Red line tracks extend past the station, under Route 2, and terminate in a small underground storage yard. When the adjacent chemical plant eventually closed and was replaced by an office development, the rail spur to the plant was no longer needed and its underpass was converted to an access ramp from the station to Route 2.

The station is named after Alewife Brook, a nearby tributary of the Mystic River. The Mystic River is the name of a short river in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The Alewife is a species of fish which inhabits the Mystic River system. The alewife ( Alosa pseudoharengus) is a species of Herring. There are anadromous and landlocked forms

Parking Garage Expansion

As of April 2008, the MBTA has said that they do not have funds to add two levels to the parking garage to add capacity, which would cost $30 million to $35 million and add about 1300 spaces; the structure was originally designed to be able to have two more levels added, but whether the condition of the structure and building codes would allow today that is not clear. [3]

Gallery

High-density development at Alewife

Kiss and ride area with sculptured benches by artist William Keyser, Jr. Note bicycle parking to the rear,

Looking down to the concourse from the escalator

An inbound Red Line T train departs from Alewife station.

Bicycle parking

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