Copley (MBTA station)

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Copley

Copley station entrance in front of Old South Church

Station statistics

Address

640 Boylston at 230 Dartmouth Streets under Copley Square, Downtown Boston

Lines

Green Line

(all branches)

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

October 3, 1914

Owned by

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Traffic

Passengers (1997)

3.582 million ▬ 0%

Services

Preceding station	MBTA	Following station
Hynes Convention Center toward Boston College	Green Line "B" Branch	Arlington toward Government Center
Hynes Convention Center toward Riverside	Green Line "D" Branch	Arlington toward Government Center
Hynes Convention Center toward Cleveland Circle	Green Line "C" Branch	Arlington toward North Station
Prudential toward Heath Street	Green Line "E" Branch	Arlington toward Lechmere

Copley is a stop along the Green Line subway of the MBTA in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located under Copley Square, with entrances and exits along Boylston and Dartmouth streets.

After Copley Station, the E Branch of the Green Line splits off from the rest of the downtown subway and runs under Huntington Avenue. Copley Station therefore affords outbound riders their last chance to switch on or off of an E train. However, travellers wishing to switch from one branch going inbound to another branch going outbound must do so at Arlington.

1 Attractions
2 Accessibility
3 Name Controversy
4 External links

[edit] Attractions

[edit] Accessibility

Copley Station is not wheelchair accessible. The nearest accessible station to Copley Square is Back Bay on the Orange Line, about two blocks south. See also MBTA accessibility.

[edit] Name Controversy

One of the attractions around the stop, the Boston Public Library, is requesting that the station name be changed to exactly that, "Boston Public Library", noting that the stops:

Aquarium
Charles/MGH (The Massachusetts General Hospital)
Symphony

have been created, pushing the point that the library predates the MBTA (by 11 years, in fact), and simply wants the name in their favor^{[citation needed]}.