Courthouse T Stop

Amazing station! Could compete with the best in the world, rest of the system should be aiming for this!

Buckminster Fuller’s dream has come true at last! If you desire a glimpse of the shimmering neon space-​transit of tomorrow, take a stroll down its gleaming center runway. Let it wash you in its soothing purple glow.
Courthouse station is a true testament to human folly, an astounding mixture of architectural brilliance and decadent waste that looks like the foyer of an interplanetary discothèque. It’s the most inexplicably bizarre site in the entire MBTA service web.
Nobody’s ever there, so bring friends and make love in it.

Beautiful station that services a terrible little cramped, slow, bumpy bus line. Ick.

Like 80s futurists who imagined us bustling around on hoverboards and wearing VR headsets, the design team behind the Courthouse must be unflagging optimists.
Though primarily servicing cracked parking lots and ornery seagulls, I decided to try Courthouse en route to the ICA one rainy afternoon.
The lobby is impossibly large with scrubbed steel tiles on every wall. I was there around 5pm on a weekday and shared the cavernous space with just one other traveller. As I approached the escalators, I saw a man with a mop emerge from a side door on the opposite wall.
Take your next existential crisis underground. Put your troubles in perspective and emerge refreshed from Courthouse.