page_title: Park Street station (MBTA)
section_title: MBTA era
hierarchical_section_title: Park Street station (MBTA) / History / MBTA era
caption_attribution_description: English: The Winter Street Concourse in August 2018, with the orange paint indicating the direction towards Downtown Crossing station and the Orange Line
context_page_description: Park Street is an MBTA transit station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the intersection of Park Street and Tremont Street at the eastern edge of Boston Common in Downtown Boston. One of the two oldest stations on the "T", Park Street is the transfer point between the Green and Red Lines, as one of the quartet of "hub stations" on the MBTA subway system. Park Street is the fifth-busiest station in the MBTA network, with an average of 16,571 entries each weekday in FY2019.
context_section_description: In 1964, the outer loop track was removed. Instead, a new crossover switch was installed to allow southbound streetcars from the through track to reach either side of the southbound platform. There have been proposals to reconnect the outer loop, to allow trains on the outer inbound track to be turned around at Park Street, but this has not been done because of the cost of structural reinforcements that would now be required. A short stub "pit" track for emergency service remains within the inner loop. In 1966, the south headhouse on the southbound platform was converted to an information booth for the new Freedom Trail.
  In 1967, as part of a general system rebranding by the newly formed MBTA, the subway lines were assigned colors. The streetcar system—then down to five branches, and soon four—became the Green Line, the Cambridge-Dorchester Line became the Red Line, and the Main Line El became the Orange Line. In the 1970s, the MBTA began allowing street musicians to play in the station. Park Street was used as a filming location for See How She Runs (1978) and Spenser: For Hire (1985–88); the sitcom Park Street Under (1979) was set in a fictional bar inside the station.
caption: This 2018 view of the Winter Street Concourse, looking towards the Downtown Crossing Orange Line platforms, is dominated by an orange color; the view in the opposite direction is mostly green in color.
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