Can't Get There from Here
3 AUG 2008 from the Boston Globe | Read the full story»
With bridges shaky, what if Boston lost its links to Cambridge?
They're the pulsing arteries between two cities, connecting the Boston Brahmin with the Cambridge liberal, the button-down number crunchers with the big-think biotech lab rats, the thousands of students from Boston University with those at MIT and Harvard.
But after a century of service, the Longfellow Bridge and its sibling up the Charles River, the Boston University Bridge, are crumbling; so much so that the MBTA has ordered Red Line trains to a 10-mile-per-hour crawl across the Longfellow, and walkers and bicyclists on the BU Bridge have seen their sidewalks reduced from two to one. Cars and trucks face restrictions as well.
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