Mattapan is the southern terminus of the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line, located at Mattapan Square in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. At the station, trolleys use a balloon loop to reverse direction back to Ashmont. Mattapan is also an important bus transfer station, with ten routes terminating there.
The Ashmont–Mattapan Line follows the right-of-way of the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad which opened to Mattapan in December 1847. The line was converted to an interurban-style trolley line in the 1920s, with the final section to Mattapan opening on December 21, 1929. The stone depot building, now a restaurant, stands adjacent in Mattapan Square.
The MBTA closed the line on June 24, 2006 to allow a new viaduct to be constructed at Ashmont station. During the closure, all stations on the line were modernized and (except for Valley Road) made handicapped accessible. The decrepit 1929-built shelter and old platforms were replaced by modern platforms with canopies; a new building for MBTA police and bus operations with a community room was built. Trolley service resumed on December 22, 2007.
Mattapan (/mætəˈpæn/) is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. Historically a section of neighboring Dorchester, Mattapan became a part of Boston when Dorchester was annexed in 1870. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480. Like other neighborhoods of the late 19th and early 20th century, Mattapan developed, residentially and commercially, as the railroads and streetcars made downtown Boston increasingly accessible. Predominantly residential, Mattapan is a mix of public housing, small apartment buildings, single-family houses, and two- and three-family houses (known locally as "Three-Deckers" or "Triple-Deckers"). Blue Hill Avenue and Mattapan Square, where Blue Hill Avenue, River Street, and Cummins Highway meet, are the commercial heart of the neighborhood, home to banks, law offices, restaurants, and retail shops. The new Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public library opened 2009, at a cost of more than $4 million. Mattapan has a large portion of green space within the neighborhood. The Harambee Park, the Franklin Zoo, the Boston Nature Zoo Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, and historic Forest Hill Cemetery can all be considered green space within the neighborhood of Mattapan. Mattapan's demographics are diverse, with a large population of Haitians, Caribbean immigrants, and African Americans.
Blue Hill Avenue is a proposed passenger rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail's Fairmount Line in the Mattapan neighborhood of Dorchester, Boston. The station will consist of a center island platform between the line's two tracks, with handicapped-accessible ramps to Blue Hill Avenue (MA 28) and Cummins Highway. The station is currently in final design; however, it has been significantly delayed due to local controversy and will not open until June 2017.
MBTA bus service in Greater Boston to be expanded ... The MBTA said contactless payments would be available on the bus, the Green Line on the T, Mattapan trolleys as well as all gated subway stations.
An MBTA track ... The MBTA shut down other parts of the Red Line — JFK/UMass through Ashmont and Mattapan stations — for two weeks so crews can make repairs to tracks in an effort to eliminate slow zones.
Here's how MBTA track work will affect Red Line riders in October ... These closures will precede a 16-day October shutdown of Red Line service between JFK/UMass and AshmontStation as well as the Mattapan line that MBTA officials announced last week.
The MBTA will close the Ashmont branch between the JFK/UMass and Ashmont stations and the Mattapan line between the Ashmont and Mattapan stations for about two weeks, from Saturday, Oct.
A 35-year-old Mattapan woman is accused of attacking a 13-year-old boy at a South BostonMBTA station last week, while a Sandwich man has been charged with assaulting and robbing the owners of a Hanover Street store last year.
“The MBTA’s decision to ... Before the MBTA closed the pedestrian stairway for public safety reasons, it provided a key connection from Adams Street down to the station, which is part of the MattapanLine.
Maura Healey to block MBTA plans to demolish the closed staircase at the Milton station on the Mattapan trolley line ... The station is scheduled to be replaced as part of the Mattapan LineTransformationProject.
Cunha in a letter to Hayden on Monday wrote that he had finished the probe into the April 2021 incident near the MattapanMBTA station involving Jason Leonor Cedeno and former MBTA police officer Jacob Green.
“Milton’s efforts have been ignored by the MBTA, leaving Milton with a perpetually decrepit staircase in a station used frequently by its residents and the residents of Dorchester and Mattapan,” the complaint stated.
The MBTA plans to rebuild all the stations on the Mattapan trolley line as part of a $114.5 million project, which also includes overhauling the rails and replacing the historical trolleys with light ...
MILTON – The MBTA has told the MiltonSelectBoard that the long-closed staircase at the local station of the Mattapan trolley line cannot be repaired and will be torn down.
MILTON – Town officials are threatening to take the MBTA to court after years of requests to repair and reopen a long-closed stairway at the Mattapan trolley line's Milton station ... The MBTA's ...
A man wanted on warrants for serious charges — including assault to murder — found himself in police custody after allegedly punching out a Mattapan trolley window. MBTATransitPolice responded to Mattapan station Sunday at around 1.40 p.m.
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