Arborway work includes bonus skating rink

By adamg on Sun, 12/08/2019 - 8:39pm

Broken water fountain on north side of Arborway

Clay Harper videoed a brand-new and already busted water fountain spewing water tonight on the little plaza next to the new entrance to the Forest Hills T station across the Arborway from the station.

This doesn't look good... soon to be an ice rink. Not sure the jurisdiction, but: just now in Forest Hills Northern Plaza @MBTA @MassDCR @universalhub pic.twitter.com/y1nw40PpZU

— Clay Harper (@ArborwayMatters) December 9, 2019

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Comments

Whose idea was it to put turnstyles at the ENTRANCE to the

By anon on Sun, 12/08/2019 - 11:05pm.

Arborway underpass, rather than at the end of the tunnel entering the station? The current configuration prevents commuter rail passengers from using the tunnel, unless they're monthly passholders.

Security to keep people from

By anon on Mon, 12/09/2019 - 8:18am.

Security to keep people from lurking down there.

Not an Underpass

By henryalan (not logged in) on Mon, 12/09/2019 - 10:53am.

The new headhouse is built directly above the Orange Line platform. It can only feed in to that. There is not room for an underpass connecting to the station concourse because both OL and commuter rail tracks are in the way. They could certainly have built another staircase, about 20 feet to the East, which would have connected to the commuter rail platform, but that probably would have cost quite a bit for a service that would see almost no usage.

NOW the entrance is complete

By Angry Dan on Mon, 12/09/2019 - 7:10pm.

No new T station infrastructure is complete without the necessary standing water (or ice) features.