The South Station Bus Terminal , owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , is the main gateway for long-distance coach buses in Boston, Massachusetts . It is located at 700 Atlantic Avenue, at the intersection with Beach Street, in the Chinatown / Leather District neighborhoods. The facility is immediately south-southwest of the main MBTA/Amtrak South Station terminal, and is located above the station platforms and tracks.
12-552: The building, completed in 1995, serves as a nexus to consolidate several intercity coach bus locations serving Boston into a single central location. This shift facilitated the removal of the main coach bus terminal at the heart of Dewey Square , a shift from the former Greyhound coach Bus terminal at 10 St. James Avenue in the Back Bay area, and the transferral of various curbside Chinatown bus lines into this one facility. Continental Trailways service also previously operated from
24-557: A grand union at the intersection of Summer and Atlantic. The Atlantic Avenue Elevated came in 1901 with an elevated station (also called South Station ) one block south of Dewey Square. It was closed in 1938 and torn down in the early 1940s; the Union Freight Railroad lasted until 1970. The next major change came in the 1950s when the Central Artery was built. The whole area on the north and south sides of
36-630: A local road, and in 1899 the Summer Street Bridge was built across Fort Point Channel . Also in 1899, Federal Street was closed south of Dewey Square to make way for the new South Station, and Atlantic Avenue was extended along the west side of the new terminal along with a realignment of the Union Freight Railroad . Around this time, the Boston Elevated Railway reorganized its streetcar tracks into
48-483: A temporary intercity bus depot for providers such as Peter Pan , Trailways and others was located just north of Dewey Square over the Central Artery. This temporary bus station replaced an earlier Trailways bus station that had been located in Park Square. All intercity buses were relocated in 1993 to the nearby South Station Bus Terminal just south of South Station, situated above the train tracks. The area
60-597: A terminal in the Back Bay, until sometime in the 1980s. A second phase of construction, to expand the coach bus terminal, is part of the South Station Tower project. The bus station building has a mixture of glass and metal on its exterior, with mainly a red-granite stone and metallic-surfaced interior. Situated just south of and separate from the main South Station train terminal, the bus terminal
72-681: Is now largely an open plaza at the southern end of the Rose Kennedy Greenway , which features food trucks and a seasonal farmer's market operated by the Boston Public Market . From September 30 to December 10, 2011, Dewey Square was the site of the Occupy Boston tent city. 42°21′10″N 71°03′20″W / 42.35283°N 71.05557°W / 42.35283; -71.05557 Dewey Square Tunnel Too Many Requests If you report this error to
84-433: Is strikingly vertical in design, with five floors. Entry is via a long escalator, or a large glass-sided elevator with exterior views. The passageway from the upper entrance lobby towards the main hall has a series of large dark-tinted windows overlooking the railway tracks below. The station contains a variety of amenities for waiting passengers. These include a newsstand and snack cart; free 15-minute public parking on
96-840: The John F. Kennedy Surface Road, with the Central Artery ( I-93 ) passing underneath in the Dewey Square Tunnel , which was built in the Big Dig . South Station is on the southeast corner of the square, with Amtrak and MBTA Commuter Rail services, as well as Red Line subway trains and Silver Line bus rapid transit underneath . It is named for the only Admiral of the Navy in U.S. history, George Dewey . The Dewey Square of New York City, also named after George Dewey in 1922 from its previous name of Kilpatrick Square,
108-405: The roof, and restrooms . Like other major transportation facilities, it also contains full service ticket counters, seating areas, and a waiting hall with designated gates leading to individual buses. Dewey Square Dewey Square is a square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts which lies at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue , Summer Street , Federal Street , Purchase Street and
120-404: The square (they had formerly operated as a one-way pair ). Summer Street has since reopened (as a two-way road), but Federal Street is still a pedestrian mall . The Big Dig in the late 1990s and early 2000s kept the one-way configurations north of the square, but now Atlantic Avenue continues as one-way (northbound) south of the square, and Surface Artery is one-way southbound. For some time,
132-453: The square was cleared, and the Artery was built underground via the Dewey Square Tunnel . Atlantic Avenue became one-way northbound and Purchase Street one way southbound to the north of the square, and the new Surface Artery came in as a two-way road above the tunnel heading southwest from the square. Between 1969 and 1978, Boston closed both Federal Street and Summer Street for a block west of
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#1732790771566144-467: Was renamed A. Philip Randolph Square in 1964 after A. Philip Randolph . The square was named in honor of Admiral George Dewey after his decisive 1898 victory in the Battle of Manila Bay . Before the Central Artery construction of the 1950s, it was simply an intersection with traffic islands and rail infrastructure, surrounded by buildings with no open space. In 1898, Summer Street was extended east as
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