Green Line "C" Branch

The Green Line "C " or Beacon Street Branch or Cleveland Circle Branch is an underground tram and a branch of the MBTA Green Line in the Boston area in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. On this route run Light rail vehicles on a partially non-crossing route in the middle of Beacon Street. The line extends in the direction of travel Boston North Station from the station Kenmore on the same tracks as the Green Line B and Green Line D. At the other end of the route, the route ends at Cleveland Circle, of a pedestrian bridge to the station area near the Green Line D is connected. Likewise, the station of the Green Line B at the Chestnut Hill Avenue can be reached on foot. Underground, the route runs through the tunnel Boylston Street Subway and Tremont Street Subway.

Traffic management

The tracks of the Green Line C run on a separate track in the middle of Beacon Street in Brookline, but there are a total of 18 intersections with the road. At these points the rail vehicles must stop and follow the instructions on the signaling system. The signal circuit along the Beacon Street could theoretically optimized and the speed of the line are significantly increased, however, sees the MBTA, which would have to pay for the required new technical system, this project as not economically viable to. In 2007, the Boston Globe Letters of passengers who spoke out for the installation of new sensors on the track, a response letter to the MBTA, the first arguing for data collection in a study, and a further letter to the editor in which the MBTA released the escape was accused in excuses.

In January 2008, the MBTA hired a consultant to investigate the case. In 2011, the city of Brookline, MBTA formally asking for an improvement in the signal circuits to speed up the trains of the Green Line on Beacon Street for a moment.

History

The first tracks on Beacon Street were laid in 1888 and ranged from the Massachusetts Avenue westward to the Coolidge Corner neighborhood in Cambridge. The following year, the rest of the way was opened to Cleveland Circle in Boston. 1889 went according to plan, the first electrically operated tram Green Line A on the Beacon Street from Coolidge Corner eastwards to Massachusetts Avenue and then south on Boylston Street to Park Square. In the same year the railway track on Beacon Street to Cleveland Circle was electrified.

At the station at Washington Square was a further connection to the track on the Beacon Street set up so that trams run from Brookline Village along Washington Street and then turn west could onto Beacon Street. This line was later extended north to the Chestnut Hill Avenue and west on Commonwealth Avenue to the station Boston College. Today this route is served by the MBTA bus # 65.

On September 1, 1897, the tunnel Tremont Street Subway was opened and offered the Green Line C is the way to go underground on the Boylston Street Portal at the Boston Public Garden and to turn to the Park Street Station. On October 3, 1914, the Boylston Street Subway extended the underground route to Kenmore Square, and was finally able from 23 October 1932, the metro station Kenmore be approached. Today's route was initially the number 61 before it was renamed the Green Line C 1967.

The line was extended on February 7, 1931 by Park Street until after Lechmere. Since then, the eastern terminus was changed several times:

• November 20, 1961: Reducing the line to North Station, only on Sundays continue to Lechmere.
• March 25, 1967: Extension of the distance to Lechmere at any time.
• June-September 1968 On Sundays shortening until the Government Center Sundays, then again at any time to Lechmere
• March 21, 1980: Reduction to the Government Center except during rush hour.
• June 21, 1980: Enlargement to Lechmere at any time.
• April 4, 1981: Reduction to Park Street.
• June 26, 1982: Extension to the Government Center.
• July 30, 1983: Extension to the North Station.
• March 28, 1997: Reduction to the Government Center.
• January 1, 2005: Extension to the North Station.

As of 2011, the Green Line C ends at the North Station.