City Point (MBTA station)

City Point was a transportation station in South Boston, Massachusetts, on the MBTA's Silver Line, the terminus of the former SL3 line. It lacked waiting facilities for passengers, and existed solely as a turnaround for the buses on the SL3.

The station was closed when the SL3 line was dropped in 2008 due to low ridership.

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Old geographic map of the Silver Line showing the SL3 (lower right). The SL4 route shown never ran; the current SL4 mostly parallels SL5.

The City Point area is still served by the #5, 7, 9, 10 and 11 buses, all of which terminate at City Point Bus Terminal on East 1st Street between M and N streets. All except the #5 were formerly streetcar routes. Service was converted to bus on the 7,9, and 10 in 1953; they were some of the last Boston-area streetcar lines to be bustituted, and the #9 was the second-to-last line (the other being the #43) to serve the Pleasant Street Portal. Streetcars last ran on the #11 in 1929.

Until October 1985, when the modern turnaround loop was built, service ran to the former carhouse location at East 2nd Street and O Street.

See also

• Silver Line (MBTA)
• MBTA bus routes in South Boston