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Forest Hills station is an intermodal transfer station in Boston, Massachusetts.It serves the MBTA rapid transit Orange Line and three MBTA Commuter Rail lines (Needham, Providence/Stoughton, and Franklin/Foxboro) and is a major terminus for MBTA bus routes.
This is a route-map template for Forest Hills station (MBTA), a Boston subway and commuter rail station.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The east-to-west Q64 route runs primarily on Jewel Avenue operating between the Forest Hills–71st Avenue subway station in Forest Hills and 164th Street in Electchester. The QM4 route is an express bus route running from Midtown Manhattan to Electchester running via Sixth Avenue in Manhattan and Jewel Avenue in Queens.
SL2 bus at South Station. The Silver Line is a six-route bus rapid transit system marketed as rapid transit.It is divided into two branches: Waterfront service (SL1, SL2, SL3, and the rush-hour SLW shuttle) that runs through the South Boston Transitway tunnel, and Washington Street service (SL4 and SL5) that runs on the surface via Washington Street.
Forest Hills is served by the Forest Hills Station, a local transportation hub operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). This station is the southern end of the Orange Line , is a stop on the Commuter Rail's Needham Line , and was previously the terminal for the Green Line's E branch , until it was truncated to Heath ...
On the current MTA map [36] and published timetables, [46] the station name is "Forest Hills–71st Avenue." In the past, "Continental Avenue" (the alternative name of 71st Avenue used in nearby Forest Hills Gardens ) has been included in the name [ 47 ] and is used on the rollsigns of older rolling stock such as the R32 .
In 1967, the station was renamed Essex to avoid confusion with the preexisting Green Line station a block away. The line was known as the Main Line Elevated under the Boston Elevated Railway, and the Forest Hills–Everett Elevated (Route 2 on maps [7]) under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
A Silver Line bus at East Berkeley Street stop, the former location of Dover station, in 2011. Since the Southwest Corridor was located somewhat further to the west than the elevated had been, away from neighborhood centers like Dudley and Egleston Squares, the MBTA promised that a branch of the light rail Green Line would be built to provide continued rapid transit service to those areas.