It is located on Washington Street at Melnea Cass Boulevard in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Silver Line service on Washington Street began on July 20, 2002, replacing the route 49 bus.

[1] Washington Street was a proposed stop on the Urban Ring – a circumferential bus rapid transit (BRT) line designed to connect the existing radial MBTA rail lines to reduce overcrowding in the downtown stations.

[3] Under draft plans released in 2008, buses would have run in dedicated lanes on Melnea Cass Boulevard, with platforms at Washington Street.

A spur of the Urban Ring would have run on Washington Street to Dudley Square.