Boston University Bridge
42.35238 - 71.11066Koordinaten: 42 ° 21 ' 8.6 "N, 71 ° 6' 38.4 " W
F1
Massachusetts Route 2
Former Name: Cottage Farm Bridge
The Boston University Bridge or short BU Bridge is a steel truss bridge with a freely suspended roadway in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. She leads the Massachusetts Route 2 from Boston over the Charles River to Cambridge. Although the street directory of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials contains an indication that the bridge also U.S. Highway leads 3 over the river up to its southern end at U.S. Highway 20 (also known as Commonwealth Avenue ), however, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation believes that the bridge is not part of U.S. Highway 3. It continues the route along the Memorial Drive in Cambridge, until it meets Route 2A at the end of the Harvard Bridge on Massachusetts.
Its name, Cottage Farm Bridge was changed in 1949 in honor of lying at its southern end Boston University in its present designation.
Construction phase
The bridge was built in 1928 based on a design by Andrew Canzanelli. It replaced a drawbridge that was built in 1850 at the same place and as Brookline Bridge had been known. Canzanelli also designed the John W. Weeks Bridge and the Hatch Memorial Shell.
The bridge runs diagonally over an older, single-track railway bridge of the railway line East Boston - Allston, which was acquired in 2010 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the MBTA by the previous owner, CSX Transportation, to implement the Urban Ring project at this point can.
Rehabilitation
2008 it was announced by studies that found the bridge in a state of disrepair. So gave in some places holes in the road surface views of the river free, at other points leading from Storrow Drive to the bridge steps were rusted through.
Based on these findings called the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation as the owner of the bridge a comprehensive, been translated to 20 million U.S. dollar refurbishment program in place, which lasted from spring 2009 to spring 2012.
The construction work took place in three phases, with the peak hours always both directions were provided. On 21 December 2011, the bridge was re-opened with a road on which each open two lanes on both sides. In addition to sidewalks 5 ft (1.5 m) wide bike paths have been established.