Blandford Street | |||||||||||||
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Blandford Street station facing Kenmore Square in September 2013 | |||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||
Location | Commonwealth Avenue at Silber Way Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°20′57″N 71°06′01″W / 42.349126°N 71.100235°W | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1896 | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2011 | 1,540 (weekday average boardings)[1] | ||||||||||||
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Blandford Street station is a surface-level light rail station on the MBTA's Green Line B branch located in Boston, Massachusetts. The station is located in the center median of Commonwealth Avenue at Silber Way and Blandford Mall, about 2 blocks west of Kenmore Square, near the east end of Boston University. The station consists of two low side platforms, which serve the B branch's two tracks. The station is the first station outbound on the B branch after it splits off from the C and D branches at Kenmore.
Blandford Street is the seventh-busiest surface stop on the B branch, averaging 1,540 boardings per weekday.[1] Although a number of the Green Line surface stops were upgraded with slightly raised platforms around 2003 to allow level boarding on Type 8 low-floor trams, Blandford Street was not among them, and it is not accessible.[1]