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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org street-address">Dorchester Avenue</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Dorchester_Avenue,_Dorchester_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dorchester_Avenue%2C_Dorchester_MA.jpg/220px-Dorchester_Avenue%2C_Dorchester_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dorchester_Avenue%2C_Dorchester_MA.jpg/330px-Dorchester_Avenue%2C_Dorchester_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dorchester_Avenue%2C_Dorchester_MA.jpg/440px-Dorchester_Avenue%2C_Dorchester_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">In <a href="/wiki/Dorchester,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorchester, Massachusetts">Dorchester</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">South end</th><td class="infobox-data">Adams Street / Washington Street</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">North end</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Congress_Street_(Boston)" title="Congress Street (Boston)">Congress Street</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dorchester Avenue</b> (sometimes called <b>Dot Ave</b>) is a street in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, running from downtown south via <a href="/wiki/South_Boston" title="South Boston">South Boston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dorchester_(MA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorchester (MA)">Dorchester</a> to the border with <a href="/wiki/Milton_(MA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Milton (MA)">Milton</a>, where it ends. Built as a <a href="/wiki/Turnpike_trust" title="Turnpike trust">turnpike</a>, the <b>Dorchester Turnpike</b>, it is mostly straight. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dorchester_Avenue_(Boston)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Boston South Bridge over <a href="/wiki/Fort_Point_Channel" title="Fort Point Channel">Fort Point Channel</a>, on the site of today's West Fourth Street Bridge, opened on October 1, 1805 as the first bridge connecting downtown to South Boston. Until it was sold to the city of Boston on April 19, 1832, it was a <a href="/wiki/Toll_bridge" title="Toll bridge">toll bridge</a>. </p><p>The <b>Dorchester Turnpike Corporation</b> (sometimes called the <b>South Boston Turnpike</b>) was created by the state legislature on March 4, 1805, to build a turnpike from the east end of the Boston South Bridge (Nook Point) to Milton Bridge over the <a href="/wiki/Neponset_River" title="Neponset River">Neponset River</a>, on the other side of which the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Hill_Turnpike" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Hill Turnpike">Blue Hill Turnpike</a> later continued. </p><p>Construction cost more than expected, and thus high tolls were charged, so many travelers took the old longer route through <a href="/wiki/Roxbury_(MA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roxbury (MA)">Roxbury</a>. Despite that, the Dorchester Turnpike was one of the most profitable turnpikes, with earnings steadily climbing to a peak in 1838. When the parallel <a href="/wiki/Old_Colony_Railroad" title="Old Colony Railroad">Old Colony Railroad</a> opened in 1844, earnings quickly fell. </p><p>The North Free Bridge, on the site of today's Dorchester Avenue Bridge, opened in 1826, providing a more direct route form the north end of the turnpike to <a href="/wiki/Dewey_Square_(Boston)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dewey Square (Boston)">Dewey Square</a> downtown.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050408223251/http://world.std.com/~mobius/fort_point.html">[1]</a> </p><p>On April 22, 1854, the turnpike became a free public road, named Dorchester Avenue. The name was changed to Federal Street in 1856, as it provided a continuation of that street from downtown Boston (via the North Free Bridge), but it became Dorchester Avenue again in 1870. </p><p>As part of the building of <a href="/wiki/South_Station_(Boston)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Station (Boston)">South Station</a> (opened 1899), Federal Street was cut between the bridge and Dewey Square. Dorchester Avenue was extended north from the bridge around the east side of the new union station, along the shore of the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Point_Channel" title="Fort Point Channel">Fort Point Channel</a>, intersecting Mount Washington Avenue (which was also cut by the new station) and <a href="/wiki/Summer_Street_(Boston)" title="Summer Street (Boston)">Summer Street</a> and ending at Congress Street. Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Avenue_Viaduct" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic Avenue Viaduct">Atlantic Avenue Viaduct</a> was built as a second bridge just west of the Dorchester Avenue Bridge, connecting to <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Avenue_(Boston)" title="Atlantic Avenue (Boston)">Atlantic Avenue</a> at <a href="/wiki/Dewey_Square_(Boston)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dewey Square (Boston)">Dewey Square</a>. </p><p>By 1923 the viaduct was gone, but the extension of Dorchester Avenue remains to this day. In the 1990s it was closed to the public, including <a href="/wiki/Pedestrian" title="Pedestrian">pedestrians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bicyclist" class="mw-redirect" title="Bicyclist">bicyclists</a>, from the bridge to Summer Street, due to its proximity to <a href="/wiki/Big_Dig_(Boston,_Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Dig (Boston, Massachusetts)">Big Dig</a> construction.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://groups-beta.google.com/group/ne.transportation/browse_frm/thread/5eb4a806cfa7c3f9/cb76586b40c5046a">[2]</a> It has remained closed due to security concerns, as it runs next to the South Postal Annex (a sorting facility of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service">United States Postal Service</a>). In February 2022, <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Massachusetts" title="Governor of Massachusetts">Massachusetts Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Baker" title="Charlie Baker">Charlie Baker</a> announced that a $37 million project to replace the Dorchester Avenue bridge passing over the <a href="/wiki/Red_Line_(MBTA)" title="Red Line (MBTA)">MBTA Red Line</a> will be included in the $9.5 billion in federal funds the state government received under the <a href="/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_Jobs_Act" title="Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act">Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_transportation">Public transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dorchester_Avenue_(Boston)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Public transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Avenue_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorchester Avenue Railroad">Dorchester Avenue Railroad</a>, one of the first <a href="/wiki/Street_railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Street railway">street railways</a> in Boston, started operations in 1857, eventually running over the full length (from downtown to the Neponset River). When the road was realigned around 1899, the tracks were moved, ending at a line along Summer Street. </p><p>As the <a href="/wiki/Red_Line_(MBTA)" title="Red Line (MBTA)">Red Line</a> opened in the 1910s and 1920s, parallel to Dorchester Avenue, most through passengers switched to that, and local routes were rerouted to feed into the new <a href="/wiki/Rapid_transit" title="Rapid transit">subway</a>. Tracks were removed by the 1950s. Today the Red Line Ashmont branch is sometimes referred to as the Dorchester Avenue line. </p><p>Nowadays the only <a href="/wiki/MBTA_bus" title="MBTA bus">bus</a> routes to use the road are local routes to subway stations: </p> <dl><dd><i>Note: routes that use Dorchester Avenue for only a few blocks are not listed.</i></dd></dl> <ul><li>18 <a href="/wiki/Ashmont_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashmont (MBTA station)">Ashmont</a>—<a href="/wiki/Andrew_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew (MBTA station)">Andrew</a> via Dorchester Avenue</li> <li>27 <a href="/wiki/Mattapan_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mattapan (MBTA station)">Mattapan</a>—<a href="/wiki/Ashmont_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashmont (MBTA station)">Ashmont</a> via River Street and Dorchester Avenue</li> <li>217 Wollaston Beach—<a href="/wiki/Ashmont_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashmont (MBTA station)">Ashmont</a> via Adams, East Milton Square and Beale Street</li> <li>240 <a href="/wiki/Ashmont_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashmont (MBTA station)">Ashmont</a>—Avon Square via Crawford Square Randolph</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Numbered_routes">Numbered routes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dorchester_Avenue_(Boston)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Numbered routes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first numbered routes in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> were the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Interstate_Highways" class="mw-redirect" title="New England Interstate Highways">New England Interstate Highways</a> in 1922. <a href="/wiki/New_England_Interstate_Highway_6" class="mw-redirect" title="New England Interstate Highway 6">NE 6</a> may have used Dorchester Avenue south of <a href="/wiki/South_Boston" title="South Boston">South Boston</a>, but it is more likely that it turned northwest towards Morton Street just after crossing the <a href="/wiki/Neponset_River" title="Neponset River">Neponset River</a>. In any case, by 1927, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_3" title="Massachusetts Route 3">Route 3</a> (which had replaced NE 6) and <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_28" title="Massachusetts Route 28">Route 28</a> turned northwest in <a href="/wiki/Milton_(MA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Milton (MA)">Milton</a>, on a route that Route 28 still uses. (By 1928, Route 3 had been realigned to use the new Southern Artery, now Gallivan Boulevard.) </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MA_Route_C37.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/MA_Route_C37.svg/100px-MA_Route_C37.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/MA_Route_C37.svg/150px-MA_Route_C37.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/MA_Route_C37.svg/200px-MA_Route_C37.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="601" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p>Between 1933 and 1935, the C (city) routes through downtown Boston began to be signed. <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_C37" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts Route C37">Route C37</a>, a continuation of <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_37" title="Massachusetts Route 37">Route 37</a>, used MDC Parkways (now Morrissey Boulevard), merging with Dorchester Avenue at Old Colony Avenue. From there C37 took Dorchester Avenue to its north end, Congress Street, turning northwest there into downtown. A <a href="/wiki/One-way_pair" title="One-way pair">one-way pair</a> existed from West Fourth Street to the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Point_Channel" title="Fort Point Channel">Fort Point Channel</a>, with southbound traffic using Foundry Street and West Fourth Street, but this was later removed, with Dorchester Avenue returning to full two-way operation. </p><p>Route C37 was decommissioned circa 1959 when Route 37 was truncated to Braintree (interchange with former-Route 128/current I-93/US 1) following the completion of the Southeast Expressway (current I-93/US 1/Route 3) leaving Dorchester Avenue with no numbered routes. Thus, over the years, the only route to use the road has probably been C37. </p><p>The rest of the C routes would be decommissioned circa 1970-1971. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 0.5em auto; font-size:95%; width:300px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="5">Browse numbered routes </th></tr> <tr><td style="text-align:left">← <span style="display:inline-block"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/MA_Route_37.svg/24px-MA_Route_37.svg.png" decoding="async" width="24" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/MA_Route_37.svg/36px-MA_Route_37.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/MA_Route_37.svg/48px-MA_Route_37.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_37" title="Massachusetts Route 37">Route 37</a></span></td><td 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title="Newbury Street">Newbury Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Street,_Boston" title="Park Street, Boston">Park Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soldiers_Field_Road" title="Soldiers Field Road">Soldiers Field Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Street_(Boston)" title="State Street (Boston)">State Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Storrow_Drive" title="Storrow Drive">Storrow Drive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summer_Street_(Boston)" title="Summer Street (Boston)">Summer Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tremont_Street" title="Tremont Street">Tremont Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winter_Street_(Boston)" title="Winter Street (Boston)">Winter Street</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><div style="margin:5px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Boston6.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Boston6.JPG/100px-Boston6.JPG" 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(Boston)">Brattle Street</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookline_Avenue" title="Brookline Avenue">Brookline Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Street_(Boston)" title="Charles Street (Boston)">Charles Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbus_Avenue_(Boston)" title="Columbus Avenue (Boston)">Columbus Avenue</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Dorchester Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stony_Brook_Reservation_Parkways" title="Stony Brook Reservation Parkways">Enneking Parkway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Street_(Boston)" title="Federal Street (Boston)">Federal Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Street_(Boston)" title="Franklin Street (Boston)">Franklin Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanover_Street_(Boston)" title="Hanover Street (Boston)">Hanover Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaicaway" title="Jamaicaway">Jamaicaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_Street_(Boston)" title="Jersey Street (Boston)">Jersey Street (Yawkey Way)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Avenue_(metropolitan_Boston)" title="Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston)">Massachusetts Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morrissey_Boulevard" title="Morrissey Boulevard">Morrissey Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Street" title="Morton Street">Morton Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Street_(Boston)" title="North Street (Boston)">North Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Drive_(parkway)" title="Park Drive (parkway)">Park Drive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverway" title="Riverway">Riverway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/School_Street" title="School Street">School Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Parkway" title="Truman Parkway">Truman Parkway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stony_Brook_Reservation_Parkways" title="Stony Brook Reservation Parkways">Turtle Pond Parkway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Street_(Boston)" title="Union Street (Boston)">Union Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veterans_of_Foreign_Wars_Parkway" title="Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway">Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Street_(Boston)" title="Washington Street (Boston)">Washington Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stony_Brook_Reservation_Parkways" title="Stony Brook Reservation Parkways">West Boundary Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Roxbury_Parkway" title="West Roxbury Parkway">West Roxbury Parkway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Intersections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Adams_Square_(Boston)" title="Adams Square (Boston)">Adams Square</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew (MBTA station)">Andrew Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_and_Blackstone_Squares" title="Franklin and Blackstone Squares">Blackstone Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigham_Circle" title="Brigham Circle">Brigham Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Square,_Boston" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Square, Boston">Central Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester_Square_(Boston)" title="Chester Square (Boston)">Chester Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlestown,_Boston#Geography" title="Charlestown, Boston">City Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Circle" title="Cleveland Circle">Cleveland Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codman_Square_District" title="Codman Square District">Codman Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copley_Square" title="Copley Square">Copley Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Day_Square" title="Day Square">Day Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Square" title="Dewey Square">Dewey Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dock_Square" title="Dock Square">Dock Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_Crossing" title="Downtown Crossing">Downtown Crossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Plain#Neighborhoods" title="Jamaica Plain">Egleston Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorchester,_Boston#Neighborhood_sections_and_squares" title="Dorchester, Boston">Fields Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_and_Blackstone_Squares" title="Franklin and Blackstone Squares">Franklin Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haymarket_Square_(Boston)" title="Haymarket Square (Boston)">Haymarket Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Plain#Neighborhoods" title="Jamaica Plain">Hyde Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Plain#Neighborhoods" title="Jamaica Plain">Jackson Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenmore_Square" title="Kenmore Square">Kenmore Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisburg_Square" title="Louisburg Square">Louisburg Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_and_Cass" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass and Cass">Mass and Cass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maverick_Square" title="Maverick Square">Maverick Square</a></li> <li><a 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