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Stay to the right on the Longfellow

By adamg on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 1:37pm

Globe: Heavy vehicles banned from bridge's left lanes.

Bonus explanatory journalism from a paper apparently unsure if most of its readers actually live in the Boston area:

The bridge - sometimes called the "salt and pepper bridge" because of its four towers that look like spice shakers ...

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Longfellow Bridge
Kendall Square


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By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 6:39pm.

I've biked over the Longfellow many a time when I worked at MGH.

This won't work unless there is 1)a statie writing the tickets 24/7 or 2) they do what was done with the Harvard Bridge in the 80's and just close the lanes entirely.

I sincerely hope they do the latter, and restripe a new single lane between the two current lanes with a bike/ped lane down the side. A bike lane on that bridge would be nice. I really missed the defacto cycle lane that formed when they shut down two lanes of the bridge when I lived in Boston but attended MIT. Ron Newman, who lived at the same address but a few years before me remembers that, I'd bet!

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By independentminded on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 6:52pm.

I remember when they closed some of the lanes on the Mass Ave/Harvard Bridge back in the 1980's for repairs, and they had ample reason to do so: everytime trucks, buses and/or other heavy vehicles would cross that bridge, it would shake like crazy. It had been that way for sometime, it wasn't that recent.

That being said, they should probably do likewise with the Longfellow Bridge until all repairs are finished, even though it causes some inconveniences. This country's bridges, roads and streets are in disrepair, and what's presently being spent on our war on Iraq and has been spent on other mindless wars fought by the United States (i. e. Viet Nam, etc.), would've/could've been spent elsewhere, and the repairing of our roads, highways and bridges is a good example of that, but this is another issue.

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