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South Station

South Station, located at Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street, in Boston, Massachusetts is a major transportation hub. Its facilities include:

• the northern terminus of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor train service, including Acela high-speed trains. There is also daily Amtrak overnight train to Chicago.
• a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail terminus.
• a station stop on the Boston subway's Red Line.
• a station stop on the Phase 2 Silver Line (expected to open in late 2004, with service extending to Logan Airport in 2005)
• Boston's main inter-city bus terminal.
• local bus service.
• staffed ticket windows.
• a food court and waiting area.
• public art, including a sculpture built of railroad car couplers and a model of the planet Jupiter, part of the Boston Museum of Science scale model of the solar system

Note: Several MBTA commuter rail lines plus Amtrak's service to Maine do not stop at South Station. They terminate at North Station, about 1-1/4 mile away.

Attractions

• Boston South Postal Annex, with a post office that is almost never closed (there is a passage way to it at the foot of Track 13).
• Boston's financial district.
• the Children's Museum.
• Rowes Wharf ferry terminal.
• the Boston Convention Center, about a 10 minute walk, or you can take the Silver Line (when it opens) to the World Trade Center stop.

Accessibility

• South Station is wheelchair accessible, but finding the elevator to the subway can be a bit tricky - it's in the corridor behind the information booth.
• Other Amtrak stations on the Northeast Corridor are generally accessible.
• Some MBTA commuter rail stations have no wheelchair access and many of those that do have short elevated platforms that only serve one or two cars. See MBTA accessibility.

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