Lechmere station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line light rail station in Lechmere Square in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is located on the east side of Monsignor O'Brien Highway near First Street, adjacent to the NorthPoint development. The accessible elevated station has a single island platform, with headhouses at both ends. It opened on March 21, 2022, as part of the Green Line Extension (GLX). Lechmere station is served by Green Line D branch and E branch service.
The first transit in East Cambridge was a station on the Boston and Lowell Railroad, which served the neighborhood from the mid-19th century to 1927. Horsecar service through Lechmere Square began around 1861, using the Craigie Bridge to reach Boston, and was electrified in the 1890s. The Lechmere Viaduct was opened in 1912 with an incline to Lechmere Square, allowing streetcars from lines on Cambridge Street and Bridge Street to reach the Tremont Street subway.
In 1922, the Boston Elevated Railway opened a prepayment transfer station at Lechmere, separating the surface streetcars from the subway routes. This surface station had a loop for subway cars, with cross-platform transfers to the surface routes, and a small yard inside the loop. The surface streetcars were replaced by trolleybuses and later diesel buses in the 1930s to 1960s, while the subway routes became the Green Line in 1965.
Extensions northwest from Lechmere station were first proposed in the 1920s, though planning did not begin until the early 21st century. A new elevated Lechmere station was to be built as part of the NorthPoint development, but it was instead added to GLX planning in 2007. The MBTA agreed in 2012 to open the station by 2017, and a construction contract was awarded in 2013. Cost increases triggered a wholesale reevaluation of the GLX project in 2015. A scaled-down station design was released in 2016, with a design and construction contract issued in 2017. The surface station was closed on May 24, 2020, for Green Line Extension construction; the busways at the old station remained open as a transfer point between MBTA bus routes and Lechmere–North Station shuttle buses until the new station opened.
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at the north end of the Lechmere Viaduct, where the former ground-level Lechmerestation was replaced by an elevated station on an extended viaduct. Two...
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North Station. Although the closure of East Cambridge was protested, Prospect Hill had largely been replaced by streetcars to Lechmerestation and its...
incline to reconnect to the Lechmere Viaduct. The final section of elevated, between the Lechmere Viaduct and Lechmerestation, was closed in 2020 for construction...
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numbered 77, and today served by the 69 bus) running from Harvard station east to Lechmerestation. (Substitution of buses for streetcars on the route had been...
and rebuilt in 2005–06. The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) opened Lechmerestation in 1922 as a terminal for streetcar service in the Tremont Street subway...
The Lechmere Viaduct is a concrete arch bridge connecting the West End neighborhood of Boston to East Cambridge, Massachusetts. Opened in 1912, the viaduct...
standing until the 1990s. The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) opened Lechmerestation in 1922 as a terminal for streetcar service in the Tremont Street subway...
of CambridgeSide is near the MBTA Lechmerestation on the Green Line E branch. It is also located along the Lechmere Canal off the Charles River. In October...
the station, injuring about 40 passengers. The inner suburban stations lost much of their ridership to streetcars, especially after the Lechmere Viaduct...
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proposed for a transfer station (to allow rapid transit service through the subway to Lechmere) in 1921. The proposed station was moved west to Harvard...
Park Street to Lechmere, and the existing shuttle services to Lechmere were replaced with Kenmore–Park Street shuttles. The subway station opened on October...
organization. It operates from North Station in Boston, Massachusetts to Fort Washington/Cambridgeport via Lechmere, Kendall Square, and University Park...
be handled by extending rapid transit from Lechmere Square. A 1926 report proposed an extension from Lechmere to North Cambridge via the Southern Division...
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