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The Charlestown Bridge, [a] officially named the William Felton "Bill" Russell Bridge, [b] is located in Boston and spans the Charles River. As the river's easternmost crossing, the bridge connects the neighborhoods of Charlestown and the North End. The bridge carries a portion of the Freedom Trail linking to the USS Constitution and Bunker Hill.
Replaced Charlestown High Bridge, built 1956, demolished 2004 42°22′08″N 71°03′49″W / 42.36889°N 71.06361°W / 42.36889; -71.06361 ( Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Haymarket North Extension tunnel
The stretch south of the interchange to the Charlestown Bridge originally had no known route number assigned to it. When it became designated as Route 99 circa 1971, its southern terminus was on the Charlestown Bridge, but this was moved to its present location following the Big Dig. [citation needed]
City Square in the southern part of Charlestown was the location of the city hall before annexation by Boston. It is also the terminus of the Charlestown Bridge and the former Warren Bridge, and was formerly a stop on the Charlestown Elevated. The Central Artery was built between 1951 and 1954, routing elevated ramps through City Square. The ...
Originally intended to carry 75,000 vehicles per day in the 1950s, the Charlestown High Bridge carried upwards of 200,000 vehicles per day in the 1990s. [1] For years, the bridge was a major traffic bottleneck that affected southbound commuters from Boston's North Shore and southern New Hampshire for miles.
The bridge was sold to the Hancock Free Bridge Corporation in 1846, [8] and became toll-free on January 30, 1858. [ 9 ] The current bridge was constructed in 1910, along with the dam that turned the lower Charles River from a tidal estuary into a fresh-water basin.
The North Bank Bridge (sometimes North Bank Pedestrian Bridge) is a pedestrian and bicycle bridge on the north bank of the Charles River in Massachusetts.It connects North Point Park in Cambridge with Paul Revere Park in the Charlestown area of Boston, two parks which were created as mitigation efforts for Boston’s Big Dig.
The Charlestown Elevated was a segment of the MBTA Orange Line rapid transit line that ran from the Canal Street Incline in downtown Boston, Massachusetts through Charlestown to a terminal in Everett, Massachusetts. It opened in June 1901 and was replaced by the Haymarket North Extension in April 1975.