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Assembly (originally Assembly Square in some planning documents) is a rapid transit station on the MBTA's Orange Line, located in the eastern portion of Somerville, Massachusetts.〔 It is an infill station, located on a section of the Orange Line that has been active since 1975. The station, which opened on September 2, 2014, is the first new station on the MBTA subway system since 1987.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mbta.com/about_the_mbta/news_events/?id=6442452872&month=&year= )〕 Assembly Square station is meant to provide convenient access to the stores at Assembly Square - a major retail and residential development located on the site for a former Ford assembly plant - and the adjacent Assembly Square Marketplace. The Assembly Square project is estimated to generate 45,000 new vehicle trips each day, and the new station is intended to reduce the number that use private automobiles by diverting travelers to mass transit. Ridership is projected to reach 5,000 riders per day in 2030.〔 ==Station layout== Assembly station is in the rear of the Assembly Square development, on the existing Orange Line tracks near the Mystic River. The station consists of a single island platform long, to handle up to 6 railcars on each side.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Assembly Square Station Final Design )〕 Unlike Community College, Sullivan, and Wellington, Assembly does not have a second island platform to serve the (currently unused) third track, which was intended to be an express track. The station has two headhouses, one on each end of the platform. Two footbridges, one from each headhouse, cross over the inbound track and connect to parking on G Street. The station is fully accessible and includes bicycle storage facilities. Several public art elements are incorporated into the station. These include artistic benches and a metal panel mosaic on the station façade (both designed by Artists for Humanity) and MBTA-designed panels about the site's history. Adding a commuter rail station at Assembly Square was listed as a possibility in 2012 as an interim air quality mitigation measure in response to delays building the Green Line Extension However, such a station could not be completed by 2015, and the project was not supported by MassDOT.〔 The station would have required building separate platforms for the Haverhill Line and the Newburyport/Rockport Line, which split near the station site. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Assembly (MBTA station)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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