Porter (MBTA Station) - Accessibility

Accessibility

Porter is fully wheelchair accessible; elevators lead from street level to the mezzanine with its accessible bathroom, to the commuter rail and to both Red Line platforms. Although most of the commuter platform is low, there is a one car-length high section that allows level boarding.

As a result of a 2006 settlement of a lawsuit filed by the Boston Center for Independent Living and a group of individuals, the MBTA is installing additional elevators at Porter and four other busy MBTA subway stations. The elevator to the Red Line was out of service for 15 months beginning in March 2011 for car replacement and the installation of a second, redundant, elevator. An accessible shuttle bus ran between Porter and Davis.

The elevator to the commuter rail platform was also temporarily out of service for maintenance during the same period; a shuttle bus ran between Harvard, Porter and Waltham. The Red Line elevator was returned to service on June 22, 2012, and the commuter rail elevator returned to service on July 30, 2012.