Zakim Bridge

The sun comes up, the moon goes down

Sunlight reflects off one side of building while the moon goes down on the other

By adamg - 5/24/24 - 10:31 am

This morning, Matt Frank captured both sunrise, through the gleam on one side of a downtown building, and moonset, on the other side of the building.

Dramatic bridge

By adamg - 7/17/23 - 9:18 am

Handmaid shot the Zakim Saturday morning.

Looks like the Zakim is all it's cracked up to be

Zakim support showing cracks and exposed rebar

By adamg - 3/21/23 - 12:59 pm

Mike Greanwhel went 'Yikes' yesterday on a walk under the Zakim Bridge, when he noticed not just cracks in support-beam concrete but exposed rebar. Read more.

Latest Boston crime movie takes a few liberties with the local geography

By adamg - 1/19/22 - 1:16 pm

Aline Kaplan reports she liked Ray Donovan: The Movie, but chronicles all the ways it gets Boston geography wrong, like how Ray drives up from New York by way of the Zakim Bridge: Read more.

Smashup on the Zakim

By adamg - 12/30/20 - 9:39 pm

State Police report a crash on the Zakim Bridge into town tonight involved several vehicles and caused some injuries not considered life-threatening.

18-wheeler jackknifes on the Zakim, injures several, brings traffic to a halt

By adamg - 11/18/20 - 9:08 am

WBZ reports.

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Overturned car under the Zakim

Car turned turtle under the Zakim Bridge

By adamg - 5/24/19 - 12:24 am

Kelly the roving UHub photographer ran across this typical Boston scene in an unusual spot - under the Zakim Bridge in Charlestown at what we're betting is part of a set for that Ryan Reynolds movie about the guy who realizes he's a character in a doomed online game, the one that's been getting filmed around Boston.

Not quite ready for skating

By adamg - 1/14/19 - 9:33 am

Gary Waldeck spotted the ice that had formed overnight by the mouth of the Charles River.

Dramatic sunrise over dramatic bridge

By adamg - 12/13/18 - 7:55 pm

Rick Macomber watched the sky show over the Zakiim at sunrise.

Some Boston bridgework

By adamg - 12/2/18 - 1:32 pm

What's old is new: Myron Freeman took in the new lights on the rebuilt Longfellow Bridge yesterday (see it from the other side).

Brad Kelly, meanwhile drove into the spidery arms of the Zakim Bridge recently: Read more.

If you have to be on the Needham Line at sunrise, at least you get something out of it sometimes

By adamg - 11/21/18 - 9:11 am

Will Vincent watched the sunrise from an inbound Needham Line train in Roslindale this morning.

Rick Macomber, meanwhile, was on the Zakim: Read more.

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Splitting the uprights of the Zakim

Boston skyline and Tobin Bridge at night

By adamg - 11/11/18 - 9:01 pm

Acraftymitch captured the Tobin and Zakim bridges and downtown Boston from Malone Park in Chelsea this evening.

Copyright Acraftymitch. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Sunrise over the ramps

Sunrise over the Zakim Bridge and the Leverett ramps

By adamg - 10/17/18 - 9:07 am

Rick Macomber had a great perch for this morning's sunrise. He's looking south over the Leverett ramps, the Zakim, Boston Garden and the North Station train tracks.

Sure, why not bicycle across the Zakim at rush hour?

By adamg - 9/21/18 - 7:30 pm

Roving UHub videographer JP from Somerville captured this lad just pedaling across the Zakim around 5:30 p.m., adds:

There were about four other kids. I don’t know how or where they got off the highway but I think they must’ve taken the government center exit because they weren’t in the tunnel.