The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway system, comprising the southern stretch of the Orange Line (named after the original name for a section of Washington St, Orange St.). It ran from Chinatown through the South End and Roxbury, ending in Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain. The initial portion of the line, which ran from Dover (now East Berkeley) Street to Dudley Square opened in 1901, while the extension south to Forest Hills was completed by 1909.
The Washington Street Elevated was abandoned and torn down in 1987, replaced by a long-planned reroute some distance to the west, following the Southwest Corridor that had originally been planned for Interstate 95 through Boston. During 2002, the MBTA deployed bus rapid transit along much of the route from Dudley Square to Downtown Crossing in the form of Phase I of the controversial Silver Line; while significant effort was made to optimize the street routes for bus travel, there was considerable neighborhood criticism for reducing the number of available stops.
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