MBTA bus: 62, 62/76, 67, 76, 79, 83,350 128 Business Council: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, R1, R2 Go Bus
Construction
Structure type
Underground
Parking
2,733 spaces in garage
Bicycle facilities
Three bike cages plus racks
Accessible
Yes
History
Opened
March 30, 1985[1]
Passengers
FY2019
11,514 (weekday average boardings)[2]
Services
Preceding station
MBTA
Following station
Terminus
Red Line
Davis
toward Ashmont or Braintree
Location
Alewife station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) intermodal transit station in the North Cambridge neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the northwest terminal of the rapid transit Red Line (part of the MBTA subway system) and a hub for several MBTA bus routes. The station is at the confluence of the Minuteman Bikeway, Alewife Linear Park, Fitchburg Cutoff Path, and Alewife Greenway off Alewife Brook Parkway adjacent to Massachusetts Route 2, with a five-story parking garage for park and ride use. The station has three bike cages. Alewife station is named after nearby Alewife Brook Parkway and Alewife Brook, themselves named after the alewife fish.
The Fitchburg Railroad (now the MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line) opened through North Cambridge in 1842, followed by the now-closed Lexington Branch and Fitchburg Cutoff branch lines. An extension of the 1912-opened Cambridge–Dorchester line to North Cambridge was first proposed in the 1930s, though planning for the project did not begin until the 1960s. The Red Line Northwest Extension project included a station at Alewife Brook Parkway to capture traffic from Route 2, as a planned extension of the highway was cancelled in 1970. Construction began in 1979; with the planned route to Arlington Heights rejected by Arlington, Alewife became the terminus of the extension.
Alewife station opened on March 30, 1985, though some peak-hour service did not run to the station until that December. The station has a single underground island platform, with a busway and glass-roofed fare lobby inside the parking garage. Ramps connecting the garage to Route 2 opened in 1986. The station spurred transit-oriented development on formerly industrial land in the surrounding area. Although designed for two additional levels, the garage has not been expanded; repairs and elevator replacements began in 2018. The station features six works of public art built under the Arts on the Line program.
^Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
^"A Guide to Ridership Data". MassDOT/MBTA Office of Performance Management and Innovation. June 22, 2020. p. 6.
Alewifestation is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) intermodal transit station in the North Cambridge neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts...
alewife in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alewife may refer to: Alewife (fish), a North American herring Alewife (trade), a female brewer Alewife station...
end and single largest part of the reservation is adjacent to the AlewifeStation at the northern end of the MBTA Red Line in Cambridge. The Minuteman...
near Alewifestation, has been reused for three connecting rail trails: the Fitchburg Cutoff Path from Brighton Street to Alewifestation, the Alewife Linear...
east-west Concord Avenue and north-south Alewife Brook Parkway. Public transit access includes AlewifeStation across the railroad tracks, and buses on...
route operates entirely underground, and only 31 out of the system's 153 stations are located underground. The five branches of the Silver Line bus network...
between outlying stations and Haymarket, each running over portions of several local routes. Although intended primarily for station agents, they are...
(northbound). The parkway runs roughly north, skirting just east of the Alewife T station to a large intersection (formerly a rotary), where the limited access...
paved. MCRT - Waltham to Boston photos Fitchburg Cutoff Path, Cambridge Alewife Linear Park, Cambridge Somerville Community Path, Somerville The Somerville...
that serves the MBTA AlewifeStation, Cambridge Discovery Park and development to the south and west of the station. After the Alewife exit, the highway...
variety of settings, including stadiums, amusement parks, mass transit stations, office lobbies, airports, ski resorts, factories, power plants and casinos...
Lovell Block. In 1927, the Fitchburg Cutoff became freight-only between the Alewife area and Somerville Junction. Passenger trains from the Lexington Branch...
Forest Hills, Malden Center, Oak Grove Red Line: Alewife (3 cages), Ashmont, Braintree, Davis, South Station, Wollaston Green Line: Union Square, Lechmere...
because it could not find a bus stop in Boston's South Station. Alternatives, such as Alewifestation at the northern terminus of the Red Line subway in Cambridge...
Architectural College), Boston (Ashley, Myer & Associates, 1966): 63 Alewifestation, Cambridge (Ellenzweig, 1985) Boston City Hall, Boston (Kallmann McKinnell...
sculpture by Joe Falsetti Untitled (Richard Fleischner artwork at Alewifestation), a 1985 public art installation in Massachusetts Untitled (1995 painting...
MBTA Fitchburg Line) in West Cambridge (near the site of the modern AlewifeStation). When the separate town of West Cambridge changed its name to Arlington...
onwards. Aku Aku was named after a Polynesian restaurant near the Alewifestation that featured giant tiki statues out front. Steven Rodriguez of Nintendo...
Global Information
MBTA bus: 62, 62/76, 67, 76, 79, 83, 350
