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	Orange Line
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Oak Grove
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Malden Center
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Wellington
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Sullivan Square
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Community College
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	North Station
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Haymarket
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	State
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Downtown Crossing
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Chinatown
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	NE Medical Center
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Back Bay
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Mass Ave
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Ruggles
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Roxbury Crossing
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Jackson Sq
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Stony Brook
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Green Street
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Forest Hills
	Old Main Line Elevated stations Everett - Sullivan Square Thompson Square City Square - North Station Tunnel (Haymarket to Chinatown) Dover - Northampton - Dudley Egleston - Green - Forest Hills

	Blue Line
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Wonderland
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Revere Beach
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Beachmont
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Suffolk Downs
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Orient Heights
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Wood Island
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Airport
					Maverick
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Aquarium
				Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg*	State
					Government Center
					Bowdoin
	*Wheelchair access on outbound side only at State; exiting inbound riders change direction at Government Center

State (often State Street) is a subway station of the MBTA located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. State is the transfer point between the Orange Line and the Blue Line.

Above ground, the station's exits are located between Government Center and the Financial District. This section of the subway was built on two levels to accommodate narrow Washington Street, and formerly each entrance to the station was given a separate name, State and Milk.

State Street Station is partially wheelchair accessible as of 2005. Currently, the outbound Blue Line platform at State Street is wheelchair accessible to the street. Inbound wheelchair users can take the Blue Line to Government Center and cross the platform there to an outbound Blue Line train and take it to the accessible State Street platform. The MBTA has plans to make the remaining Blue Line stations accessible as part of a larger effort to permit 6 car trains on the line. See MBTA accessibility.

From 1997 to 2000, State was renamed State/Citizens Bank in a corporate sponsorship from Citizens Bank, who had recently moved to the area, and hoped to eventually have the name changed to simply Citizens Bank Plaza. The sponsorship failed and the name reverted to State.

The most amazing element of State Street station is the entrance built directly into one of Boston's best-known monuments, the Old Massachusetts State House. The Old State House entrance to State Street station is in fact the basement of the Old State House, a fact which often confuses first-time tourists and visitors.

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• Suited to a T, Boston Business Journal December 19, 1997