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Ruggles is an intermodal transfer station serving MBTA rapid transit, bus, and commuter rail services. It is located at the intersection of Ruggles and Tremont streets, where the Roxbury, Fenway-Kenmore and Mission Hill neighborhoods meet. The station occupies the site that was previously the South End Grounds, home of the former Boston Braves from 1871 to 1914. It is surrounded by the campus of Northeastern University.
Ruggles is a station stop for the Orange Line subway, as well as the Providence/Stoughton Line, Franklin Line, and Needham Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system. Thirteen bus routes stop at Ruggles, including four of the fifteen key MBTA bus routes.
Ruggles station opened on May 4, 1987 and was built as part of an Orange Line realignment project which relocated the former Washington Street Elevated Orange Line service into the Southwest Corridor. Commuter rail service to the station began on October 5, 1987. Ruggles is located at milepost 226.5, 1.1 miles from Back Bay and 2.2 miles from South Station.
Ruggles may refer to:
Ruggles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Carl Ruggles (1876–1971), American composer
- Charles H. Ruggles (1789–1865), New York Chief Judge
- Charles Ruggles (1886-1970), character actor, older brother of director/producer, Wesley Ruggles
- Clive Ruggles (born 1952) British Astronomer
- Daniel Ruggles (1810–1897) Confederate general
- David Ruggles (1810–1849), abolitionist
- Nathaniel Ruggles (1761–1819), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Samuel B. Ruggles (1800–1881), American lawyer and founder of Gramercy Park in New York City
- Steven Ruggles (born 1955), American historical demographer
- Timothy Ruggles (1711–1795), American military leader, jurist and politician
- Wesley Ruggles (1889-1972), film director/producer, younger brother of character actor, Charles Ruggles.
- William Ruggles (1797–1877), professor at George Washington University