Downtown Crossing was once the busiest T stop. Now there's a new No 1.

South Station has become the busiest of all the stations in the MBTA network.

South Station has become the busiest of all the stations in the MBTA network.

Downtown Crossing was once the MBTA’s busiest rapid-transit stop, with its location near the Financial District’s bustling office towers at the junction of the Red and Orange lines.

But Downtown Crossing’s traffic was down 56% last year compared to five years earlier, according to a Boston Business Journal analysis of T data. In fact, it is no longer the transit system’s busiest station. For the past two years, that honor went to another Red Line stop a half-mile away: South Station.

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