Needham Heights Station

I'm curious why there is no access to Needham Heights Station from Hunnewell Street, which crosses over the station right next to the mini-high platform. To get to the the mini-high from the bridge, you have to walk down to Highland Avenue, take a right, walk to Avery Square, take another right to get to the low platform, and then go all the way down the platform to the very end... at which point you're no more than 20 feet from where you started.

To get from a vantage point on the Hunnewell St. bridge overlooking the track down to track level requires a wheelchair ramp of about 300 feet, or the length of a football field between the goal lines. This has to be worked into the land usage and topography of the area about the station, possibly taking advantage of existing sidewalks and any slope of the station platform itself.

Unless there is ridership and funds to install an elevator near the bridge, it is not practical to build a staircase there.

Constructing a 300 ft ramp from the Hunnewell St bridge to a relocated mini-high platform might not be such a hard engineering task. In the attached photo of a train arriving the Needham Hgts station, the ramp would be at platform level at about the 2nd coach in the train. And the locomotive could stop short of the Hunnewell St overpass to have vestibule doors open at the relocated mini-high platform. Currently cab cars of the stopped trains are at least 300 ft from the West St grade crossing so I don't think there's much risk of fouling the crossing..