Valley Road (MBTA station)

VALLEY RD

Valley Road station in March 2016

Location

Valley Road off Eliot Street
Milton, Massachusetts

Coordinates

42°16′04″N 71°04′59″W / 42.267772°N 71.083025°WCoordinates: 42°16′04″N 71°04′59″W / 42.267772°N 71.083025°W

Line(s)

Red Line– Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Parking

None

Traffic

Passengers (2010)

44 (weekday inbound average)^[1]

Services

Preceding station		MBTA		Following station
Central Avenue toward Ashmont		Red Line Mattapan High Speed Line		Capen Street toward Mattapan

Valley Road is a light rail stop on the MBTA Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line, a branch of the Red Line. The station is located on Valley Road off Eliot Street in Milton, Massachusetts. Valley Road consists of two side platforms that serve the lines's two tracks. Unlike all other stations on the Line, Valley Road is not handicapped accessible.

History

Valley Road station in February 1930

Valley Road opened on December 21, 1929 along with Central Avenue, Capen Street, and Mattapan as the second phase of the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line.^[2] Like Capen Street and Butler, it had not previously been the site of a railroad station.

The whole line closed from June 24, 2006 to December 22, 2007 for a complete renovation.^[2] Unlike the other stations, Valley Road was not made handicapped accessible; its position below a hillside would have required a complex set of ramps. This was deemed too expensive for the stop, which has the lowest ridership of any MBTA rapid transit stop at just 44 daily riders.^[1]

References

1 2 "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
1 2 Belcher, Jonathan (19 March 2016). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2016" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

External links

MBTA — Valley Road

Media related to Valley Road (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

Eliot Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Subway lines
(List of stations)

Heavy rail	Blue Orange Red

Light rail	Green "B" Branch "C" Branch "D" Branch "E" Branch Ashmont–Mattapan

Former lines	Arborway Line Atlantic Avenue Elevated Causeway Street Elevated Charlestown Elevated Green Line "A" Branch Washington Street Elevated

Commuter
Rail lines
(List of stations)

North Station lines	Fitchburg Haverhill (Wildcat Branch) Lowell Newburyport/Rockport

South Station lines	Fairmount Framingham/Worcester Franklin Greenbush Needham Old Colony (Kingston/Plymouth Middleborough/Lakeville CapeFLYER) Providence/Stoughton

Former lines	Central Mass Branch Dedham Branch Lexington Branch Millis Branch Woburn Branch

Bus routes
(List of routes)

Other services

Component parts
of system lines

Capital projects

Under construction	Blue Hill Avenue station Boston Landing station Forest Hills modifications Green Line Extension Haverhill Line upgrades Silver Line Gateway / Chelsea station South Coast Rail

In planning / proposed	Buzzards Bay extension Foxboro service Hynes Convention Center renovation Kingston R.I. extension Nashua extension Route 16 extension Wollaston renovation

Formerly proposed	Arborway Line restoration Indigo Line (Fairmount Grand Junction Track 61) Lexington extension Lynn extension North–South Rail Link Plaistow extension Reading extension Red Line—Blue Line Connector Urban Ring Project

History

Predecessor companies	Boston Elevated Railway Streetcar lines Boston and Maine Railroad Conrail New York Central Railroad New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Penn Central Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Newton and Boston Street Railway

Accidents and incidents	1990 Back Bay 2008 Waban/Woodland

Other

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