Brookline Hills station

Brookline Hills is an MBTA light rail station in Brookline, Massachusetts. It serves the Green Line D branch. It is located west of Cypress Street in the Brookline Hills neighborhood. The station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks.

Brookline Hills
An outbound train at Brookline Hills station in April 2016
LocationTappan Street at Cypress Street
Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°19′53″N 71°7′36″W
Owned byMBTA
Line(s)Highland branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections MBTA bus: 60
Construction
Parking9 spaces
Bicycle facilities6 spaces
Disabled accessYes
History
OpenedJuly 4, 1959[1]
Passengers
20131,225 (daily average)[2]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Beaconsfield
toward Riverside
 Green Line Brookline Village
toward Government Center
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Beaconsfield
toward Riverside
 Highland Branch Brookline Village
toward Boston

History
Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge depot picture on an early color postcard

The original Brookline Hills station opened in 1852 on the Highland branch, which at the time was a conventional commuter rail line. After 1886, loop service was run via what is now the Framingham/Worcester Line and later the Needham Line. In March 1892, a new station designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge was opened.[3][4]

The final trains on the line ran on May 31, 1958. The line was converted to light rail by the M.T.A. and Brookline Hills reopened on July 4, 1959, along with the rest of the D branch.[1] The 1892 depot is no longer extant.

Accessibility
Construction at the station in December 2019

In the early 2000s, the MBTA modified key surface stops with raised platforms for accessibility. Brookline Hills was not among those initially outfitted with portable lifts, nor was it retrofitted with raised platforms.[5][6] However, portable lifts were installed by 2003.[7]

Around 2006, the MBTA added wooden mini-high platforms on both platforms, allowing level boarding on older Type 7 LRVs. These platforms were installed at eight Green Line stations in 2006–07 as part of the settlement of Joanne Daniels-Finegold, et al. v. MBTA.[8][9]

The station is being renovated with fully accessible platforms as part of an expansion of Brookline High School, which includes a new school building partially over the eastern end of the platforms.[10] Construction is expected to last from late 2019 to fall 2021.[11]

References
  1. Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit.
  2. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  3. Morgan, Keith N.; Cushing, Elizabeth Hope; Reed, Roger (2009). "Appendix VI: The Brookline projects of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge" (PDF). Community by Design: The Role of the Frederick Law Olmsted Office in the Suburbanization of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1880 to 1936. Boston University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  4. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl (June 1988). "Architecture for the Boston & Albany Railroad: 1881-1894". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 47 (2): 130. doi:10.2307/990324. JSTOR 990324.
  5. "Executive Summary" (PDF). Program of Mass Transportation. Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. January 2004. p. 2-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2012.
  6. "Subway Map" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 1, 2001.
  7. "Subway Service". Ridership and Service Statistics. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. October 2003. p. 2.19 – via Internet Archive.
  8. "Settlement Agreement" (PDF). Joanne Daniels-Finegold et al. v. MBTA. April 10, 2006. pp. 10–11.
  9. "Green Line Stations Upgraded to Improve Accessibility" (PDF). TRANSReport. Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. June 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2011.
  10. "BHS EXPANSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING" (PDF). Town of Brookline. April 22, 2019.
  11. Brelsford, Laura (November 30, 2020). "System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—November 2020" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. p. 4.
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