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Originally Posted by left of center
No kidding, I had absolutely no idea!
So the red line Washington station was demolished then as well? If the B37 Superstation tunnel isn't connected to the red or blue lines currently, shouldn't the station still be intact then? Or did the construction of B37 remove access to the station from the street or somehow make the station inaccessible?
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OK, so I'm actually mistaken - sort of. I thought the paid transfer tunnel was mid-block, but it's actually directly under Washington St as shown in the diagram above. So it's likely the tunnel still exists.
However, there is a problem at the east (Red Line) end. The Red Line through downtown was built as one long, continuous platform with mezzanines under the middle of each block. So there aren't discrete "stations", just stopping positions on that long platform and mezzanines every block. Those get assigned a certain name for maps.
Anyway, they demolished the section of the Red Line platform right where the stairs down to the transfer tunnel were located, and they likely filled in those stairs with concrete. This was in preparation to make the track connection to the B37 basement level. As far as I know, they stopped work shortly after and never went any further. This made the Washington-Madison mezzanine obsolete, and the Washington-Randolph mezzanine was re-signed for the Lake station.
