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South Station



  
South Station is the second largest transportation center in New England. This Boston train station and intercity bus terminal is the largest station in the Greater Boston area. Located at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Sumner Street, South Station is the domestic transportation hub of Boston offering transportation to and from the Midwest as well as the Northeastern United States.

South Station opened in 1899 as South Central Station. The station had cost more than 3 Million dollars to build and was designed by Boston architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. By 1910, South Station was the busiest station in all of the United States. South Station went through many changes along the years and in 1965 the station was sold to the Boston Redevelopment Authority who later sold the station to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Today, South Station features an inner city bus terminal, the Red Line subway, the Silver Line Subway which serves the Boston waterfront and Logan International Airport, Amtraks Northeast Corridor train services, and various MBTA Commuter Rail lines including the Fairmount Line, the Greenbush Line, the Plymouth Kingston Line and the Framingham Worcester Line. Additional features of the South Station include 24 hour baggage assistance, a parking garage, an information booth that is open 24 hours a day, a food court and a lounge which offers complimentary services similar to the airline lounge at the Logan International Airport.

Future plans for the South Station include improvements that propose increased passenger traffic. The Silver Line is set to have a third phase that would include a tunnel that connects South Station with service to Dudley Square and Roxbury T.F. Green Airport Station which is located in Rhode Island. Additionally, planning is underway for another extension that would connect South Station to Fall River and New Bedford.

South Station is nearby the Financial District which houses the Federal Reserve Bank Building, the Boston Children's Museum, the Boston Convention Center, and the Massachusetts Turnpike. Also close by the South Station is Chinatown and the Theatre District. South Station provides very easy access to residents of Chinatown and the Theatre District for travel throughout the Northeast and New England.

More than 20 million people per year travel in and out of South Station via commuter rail alone. Intercity rail passenger traffic is estimated at more than 5 million people per year and intercity bus passengers make up more than 7 million people that annually traffic through South Station. Future expansions and renovations promise to bring even more people through South Station each year making South Station continue to be one of the largest transportation centers in the country.