Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Alewife Brook Parkway and Cambridgepark West in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local intermodal transportation hub. It is the northern terminus of the MBTA's Red Line, and a bus terminal for several local routes and one intercity route. It opened on March 30, 1985.
The station is named after Alewife Brook, a nearby tributary of the Mystic River. The alewife is a species of fish which inhabits the Mystic River system.
The station is unusual among MBTA stations for using Eurostile as a typeface for signage instead of Helvetica. The Station is Handicapped Accessible.
October 8, 2018