Flyers announcing the closure of the Westbound headhouse at the Park Street station are posted in Green and Red Line stations.
The small print on the signs read:
"Starting March 6th, 2009 Barletta Construction will be closing the westbound Park Street Headhouse that allows access to the Red Line and Green line westbound platform. The reason for the closure is the replace the Park Street Stairs. The Park Street westbound head house will be closed approximately five-weeks. During this time passengers will utilize the eastbound headhouse to access the station. The entranceway at the far west-end of the Park Street westbound platform will be available for your convenience as well. During construction there will be MBTA personnel at Park Street station to assist our customers to there appropriate destinations."
(The creative capitalization and word choice is the MBTA's. Someone did cross out "there" and write in "their" on the copy I photographed with my phone.)
This work was announced in August and was scheduled to begin in January. At the time The Metro reported, that the project would,
"... include demolishing
and replacing the cast iron stairs and risers, which have become
“severely corroded and cracked,” according to Charles O’Reilly, the
MBTA’s assistant general manager of design and construction.
“This will cure a potential public safety hazard,” O’Reilly told the MBTA Board of Directors earlier this month."
This story was picked up by Universal Hub. There's a great conversation on the topic over there. (Including a betting pool on how long this job will actually take to complete.)
http://www.universalhub.com/node/23480
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Details:
MBTA Project page
http://www.mbta.com/about_the_mbta/t_projects/default.asp?id=16597
Metro Story
http://www.metro.us/us/article/2008/08/25/00/3710-72/index.xml
