Longfellow Bridge

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Longfellow Bridge is a historic steel and granite bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, known for carrying road and rail traffic between Boston and Cambridge across the Charles River.

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Longfellow Bridge canonical 13
Longfellow Bridge, Boston–Cambridge 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf bridge
granite bridge
historic place
road-rail bridge
steel bridge
alsoKnownAs Salt-and-Pepper Bridge
carries MBTA Red Line
Massachusetts Route 28
Massachusetts Route 3
rail traffic
road traffic
connects Boston
Cambridge
linked to: City of Cambridge
constructionStartDate 1900
crosses Charles River
crossesAt between Beacon Hill and Kendall Square
hasArchitecturalStyle Beaux-Arts elements
hasDesign arch bridge
viaduct
hasFeature granite piers
ornamental towers
steel arches
hasLength about 1,767 feet
hasNicknameOrigin towers resemble salt and pepper shakers
hasNumberOfSpans 11
hasRailConfiguration two Red Line tracks
hasTowers 4
hasTrafficDirection bidirectional road traffic
isNear Charles River Esplanade
Massachusetts General Hospital
isOnHistoricRoute connection between downtown Boston and Cambridge
isSignificantFor Boston–Cambridge transportation network
locatedIn Boston
Massachusetts
United States
maintainedBy Massachusetts Department of Transportation
material granite
steel
name Longfellow Bridge
namedAfter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
opened 1906
partOf Charles River crossings in Boston
replaced West Boston Bridge
underwentMajorRehabilitation 2013–2018
usedBy bicycles
motor vehicles
pedestrians
subway trains

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Charles River hasBridge Longfellow Bridge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow hasMonument Longfellow Bridge, Boston–Cambridge
linked to: Longfellow Bridge
Charles/MGH locatedOn Longfellow Bridge
Storrow Drive crossesUnder Longfellow Bridge
Longfellow Bridge name Longfellow Bridge
Kendall/MIT station near Longfellow Bridge
Charles River (Boston and Cambridge) crossedBy Longfellow Bridge
Charles River Basin hasPart Longfellow Bridge
Salt-and-Pepper Bridge colloquialNameFor Longfellow Bridge
Salt-and-Pepper Bridge alsoKnownAs Longfellow Bridge
Charles/MGH station near Longfellow Bridge
Charles/MGH station connectsTo Longfellow Bridge
West Boston Bridge replacedBy Longfellow Bridge
Cambridge hasBridge Longfellow Bridge