page_title: Box District station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Box District station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Construction of Box District station in June 2017
context_page_description: Box District is a station on the MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit system. It opened as part of a new branch to Chelsea, Massachusetts on April 21, 2018. Access to the station is available from Broadway and from Highland Street.
context_section_description: From 1849 to 1955, the freight-only Grand Junction Railroad ran through Chelsea. The MBTA later proposed to use the right-of-way as part of the Urban Ring project, which would have been a circumferential bus rapid transit line. The 2008 Draft Environmental Impact Report called for a dedicated busway on the former railroad as far east as a station on Griffin Way, where buses would rejoin the street network. Although the full project was shelved in 2010 due to the MBTA's financial difficulties, some corridor routes are receiving more limited work.
  In March 2013, the MBTA began studying an extension of the Silver Line to Chelsea via a newly constructed bypass road in East Boston. Three alternatives were discussed for the Chelsea section, two of which would run up the abandoned section of the Grand Junction Railroad right-of-way from Eastern Avenue to downtown Chelsea, with intermediate stops at Eastern Avenue and Highland/Box District. In September 2013, the MBTA indicated that it would pursue the first alternative - which also included busway stops at Bellingham Square and Chelsea.
  On October 30, 2013, MassDOT announced $82.5 million in state funding for a modified version of the first alternative to be constructed, with completion then expected in late 2015. A construction contract was approved in September 2014, and construction began in March 2015. Silver Line service on the SL3 branch began on April 21, 2018.
caption: The station under construction in 2017
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