THE NORTHWEST MBTA - RED LINE EXTENSION!

BRIEF RED LINE HISTORY:!

o Park St Harvard section opens on March 23, 1912! o Park St - Washington Street (DTX) opens on April 4, 1915! o Washington - South Station opens on December 3, 1916! o South Station Broadway opens on December 15, 1917! o Extended to Andrew by June 29, 1918! o Ashmont Branch nished by 1927! o Color red was assigned on August 26, 1965! o South Shore Extension starts 1971 (Quincy Center), ends 1983 (Braintree)!

BRIEF RED LINE HISTORY:!

THE NORTHWEST EXTENSION: ORIGINAL PLANS (1940)!

THE NORTHWEST EXTENSION: ORIGINAL PLANS (1940)!

HARVARD STATION!
o Relocated on September 6, 1983! o Interim station built during the relocation: Harvard/Brattle (abandoned)!

PORTER SQUARE!
o Opens December 8, 1984! o Station is around 110 below Mass Ave (served by 3 long, 224-step escalators) !

PORTER SQUARE!

PORTER SQUARE!

PORTER SQUARE!

PORTER SQUARE!

PORTER SQUARE!

PORTER SQUARE: COMPARISON!

DAVIS SQUARE:!
o Opens on December 8, 1984!

DAVIS SQUARE!

DAVIS SQUARE!

DAVIS SQUARE!

DAVIS SQUARE: COMPARISON!

ALEWIFE STATION:!
o Opens on March 30, 1985! o Originally designed to have 7 levels! o Were supposed to be added on shortly after! o MBTA has still yet to nd the funding (surprise) to add 2 levels! o Garage is at max capacity every day! o Stair/Elevator core is 7 stories! o Elevators have extra buttons/indicators for 7 oors due to preordering! o Immediately after the decision to build Alewife, the City of Cambridge zoned the surrounding area for high-rise commercial use.! o Because of this, the area around Alewife became home to many highly !advanced technology and bio-med rms such as E-Ink, Pzer, and !Cambridge Systematics to name a few.!

ALEWIFE!

ALEWIFE!

ALEWIFE!

ALEWIFE!

ALEWIFE!

oTesting ground for MBTA signage o Eurostyle vs. Helvetica! o Yellow vs. White o Cambridge7s Helvetica w/ White from 1960s wins! o Futuristic signage is conned to Alewife

ALEWIFE!

DEPTH DIAGRAM!

DEPTH DIAGRAM!

RELATIONSHIP TO GRID!

OLD (1912) vs. NEW (1983-5)!

OLD (1912) vs. NEW (1983-5)!

QUESTIONS/OBSERVATIONS?!