The Longfellow Bridge is a steel rib arch bridge spanning the Charles River to connect Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood with the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The bridge carries Massachusetts Route 3, the MBTA Red Line, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic. The structure was originally known as the Cambridge Bridge, and a predecessor structure was known as the West Boston Bridge; Boston also continued to use "West Boston Bridge" officially for the new bridge. The bridge is also known to locals as the "Salt-and-Pepper Bridge"[2] due to the shape of its central towers.[3]
The bridge falls under the jurisdiction and oversight of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).[4] The bridge carries approximately 28,600 cars and 90,000 mass-transit passengers every weekday.[5] A portion of the MBTA subway's elevated Charles/MGH station lies at the eastern end of the bridge, which connects to Charles Circle.
^ abcdJackson, William (1909). Report of the Cambridge bridge commission and report of the chief engineer upon the construction of Cambridge bridge. Printing department. p. 42. OL 7015322M. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
^Angelo, William J. (June 6, 2007). "Salt and Pepper Bridge Slated For Major Rehab in Boston". Engineering News-Record. The McGraw-Hill Companies. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
^A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc. in the City of Boston. City of Boston Printing Department. 1910. p. 493. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
^"Bridge Rehabilitation, Cambridge Street over the Charles River". Mhd.state.ma.us. Archived from the original on 2011-04-10. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
^"MassDOT Highway Division: Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation Project". Boston, Massachusetts: MassDOT (Commonwealth of Massachusetts). 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-08-04. Retrieved 2010-08-22. The bridge presently carries 28,000 motor vehicles, 90,000 transit users, and significant numbers of pedestrians and bicyclists each day.
The LongfellowBridge is a steel rib arch bridge spanning the Charles River to connect Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood with the Kendall Square area of...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's...
Blossom Street bridge (near Massachusetts General Hospital) Frances Appleton Bridge (at Charles Circle, Cambridge Street, next to LongfellowBridge) Arthur Fiedler...
“Fanny” Appleton and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, after whom an adjacent larger bridge is named. The Frances Appleton Bridge was completed in 2018, at an estimated...
the LongfellowBridge opened 15 years later, originally called the Cambridge Bridge, was given its current name in 1927. Citations Harvard Bridge at Structurae...
a part of Boston culture that when a "reverse curve" road sign on LongfellowBridge over the city's Storrow Drive was graffitied to read "Reverse The...
Museum, Fenway Studios, Jordan Hall, and the Boston Opera House. The LongfellowBridge, built in 1906, was mentioned by Robert McCloskey in Make Way for...
the concurrency and continues on surface streets. It crosses the LongfellowBridge on the Boston–Cambridge city line, and transitions into US 3 shortly...
Massachusetts Bay (now Gorham, Maine) to Stephen Longfellow and Patience (Young) Longfellow, Longfellow attended Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, and then...
Street bridge (near Massachusetts General Hospital) Frances Appleton Bridge (at Cambridge Street, next to LongfellowBridge) Arthur Fiedler Bridge (connecting...
diBiccari, the building is visible from the nearby Charles River and the LongfellowBridge. The Athenæum Press was designed by the architecture firm, Lockwood...
banks of the Charles River Basin, upstream as far as the Arsenal Street Bridge, and downstream as far as the Charles River Dam. Many of the boathouses...
Memorial Bridge, Boston LongfellowBridge, Boston/Cambridge Medford Pipe Bridge, an historic pedestrian bridge in Medford Memorial Bridge, Springfield/West...
tracks, connecting Charles/MGH station over Charles Circle to the LongfellowBridge and the Cambridge Tunnel's northern portal – were at the extremities...
feet (715 m) of decorative iron trim that had been removed from the LongfellowBridge for refurbishment and sold it for scrap. The men, one of whom was...
Longfellow (1845–1921) was an American artist in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York. He was the son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Ernest Longfellow...
Alice Mary Longfellow (September 22, 1850 – December 7, 1928) was a philanthropist, preservationist, and the eldest surviving daughter of the American...
Basin, Union Boat Club. The Lower Basin between the Longfellow and Harvard (Massachusetts Avenue) bridges has the sailing docks of Community Boating, the...
Line at Charles-MGH, connecting the tunnel under Beacon Hill to the LongfellowBridge. The Boston Elevated Railway was the company that owned all the elevateds...
Charles River Dam Bridge, officially the Craigie Bridge, also called Craigie's Bridge or the Canal Bridge, is a six-lane bascule bridge across the Charles...
Global Information
Route 3, MBTA Red Line