Back of the Hill (MBTA station)
BACK OF THE HILL | |||||||||||
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 An inbound train at Back of the Hill station in 2011 | |||||||||||
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South Huntington Avenue at Back of the Hill Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Owned by | MBTA | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | None (passengers must wait on sidewalks) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 35 (weekday average)[1] | ||||||||||
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Coordinates: 42°19′45.79″N 71°6′39.46″W / 42.3293861°N 71.1109611°W
Back of the Hill is a surface stop on the light rail MBTA Green Line "E" Branch, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after, and primarily serves, the adjacent Back of the Hill apartment complex, a Section 8 development for elderly and disabled residents.
Back of the Hill is the least-used stop on the MBTA subway system, averaging only 35 riders per day by a 2011 count. It is one of only four stops to average fewer than 100 riders per day.[1][note 1] Despite this, it is kept open to serve the apartment complex and because of its low operational impact: it only delays riders using adjacent Heath Street and shares its infrastructure with a bus stop.
Station layout
Back of the Hill is located on the street running section of the "E" Branch on South Huntington Avenue. The station has no platforms; passengers wait in bus shelters on the sidewalks and cross a traffic lane to reach Green Line trains.
| Outbound | ■ "E" Branch | toward Heath (Terminus) |
| Inbound | ■ '"E" Branch | toward Lechmere (Riverway) |
Bus connections
Back of the Hill shares its bus shelters with one MBTA Bus route:[2]
One additional route terminates at nearby Heath Street:
- 14 Roslindale Square - Heath Street via Dudley Station, Grove Hall & Jackson Square Station
References
- 1 2 "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ↑ "Back of the Hill Station Neighborhood Map" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. July 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
Notes
- ↑ The others, as of 2014, are Valley Road (44 riders/day), Capen Street (58 riders/day), and Cedar Grove (91 riders/day), all on the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line.