Kendall/MIT (MBTA-Station)

Kendall / MIT is the name of a metro station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA ) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. It offers the eponymous line access to Kendall Square Red Line. In an easterly direction, the trains arrive directly behind the station to the surface in order to cross the Longfellow Bridge Charles River.

History

From the early 20th century until the 1970s operated the MBTA at the Kendall Square is a power house with a converter, each consisting of an AC motor, flywheel and direct current generator. Of the AC motor is driven by the incoming AC voltage and the DC generator supplied a DC voltage of 600 volts for the power supply of the contact rails. The flywheel was used to compensate for load variations. This large building in the transformer set was redundant with the advent of compact semiconductor-based rectifiers and was replaced after the demolition of an office building.

The station Kendall / MIT was opened together with the stations Park Street, Central, and Harvard in March 1912.

Railway facilities

Track, signaling and safety systems

The underground station has two tracks, which are accessible via two side platforms. However, there is no attic, so that the platforms are not directly connected to each other - who wants to change at the station, the direction of travel, it must first exit and immediately re-enter, which also means the need for a new solution of a ticket next to the longer path.

Building

The metro station is located at the Kendall Square at the intersection of Main Street, Broadway and Third Street. He is completely accessible.

Inside the station building is that of Paul Matisse in the period from 1986 to 1988, installed artwork Kendall band. The work consists of three interactive parts " Pythagoras ", " Kepler " and " Galileo", which can be offset from any interested party via appropriate lever in action.

Surroundings

At the station there is a connection to four bus lines of the MBTA, also has 58 parking spaces for bicycles. Are the Longfellow Bridge, Charles River Bike Path along the Memorial Drive and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the immediate vicinity.