Alewife (MBTA-Station)

Alewife is the name of a metro station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA ) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. It is the northern terminus of metro line Red Line. The station was named after the river herring (English Alewife ), the reservation is found in the waters of the nearby conservation area Alewife Brook.

History

The station was opened on 30 March 1985. The Boston traffic planners had originally planned in the 1970s to build on the route of the Massachusetts Route 128, a so-called Inner Belt Expressway. The Massachusetts Route 2 was therefore eight lanes created and runs from Alewife Brook Parkway Cambridge and Somerville through to the Inner Belt. This was never built, and so the Route 2 was not much more than a very wide street with relatively little traffic. The western extension of the Red Line terminus was created with a large car park, at least to benefit in this way from the existing road capacity in excess at the end of this road. Over time, evolved to the formerly rather secluded station a private neighborhood with skyscrapers and office buildings, so that the Route 2 is used more than a few years ago.

Railway facilities

Track, signaling and safety systems

Metro Station has a total of two tracks, which are accessible via a central platform.

Building

The metro station is located at the address 11 Cambridge Park West and is completely accessible. Unlike in most other stations of the MBTA the Euro style font is used for the labels inside the building instead of Helvetica.

Under the program, Arts on the Line six works of art have been installed in the station:

• A 3 acres ( 12,000 m²) large artificial landscape with pond and granite blocks by Richard Fleischner
• A total of 200 ft (61 m) light blue tiles with abstract motifs of David Davidson
• The Mural " Alewife Cows " by Joel Janowitz shows a false, painted starting overlooking a pasture with grazing cows
• Two usable as benches sculptures by William Keyser, Jr.
• The artwork " The End of the Red Line " by Alejandro and Moira Sina consists of 1,000 neon tubes mounted on one of the tracks on the ceiling
• 100 square distributed throughout the building tiles with motifs of plants and animals of the Alewife Brook Reservation of Nancy Webb

Surroundings

At the station there is a connection to eight bus lines of the MBTA, bus lines of World Wide bus bound for New York City as well as at three shuttle bus lines of the Route 128 Business Council, approach the company to the Routes 2 and 128. In addition, there are 2,733 fee-based park and ride parking spaces and 500 bicycle parking spaces (of which 300 in closed areas ) are available.

In the immediate vicinity of the station are the protected areas Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond and the Minuteman Bikeway.