From Dave Brigham:
For months, perhaps even more than a year, I've been asking my son to walk over this bridge with me. As I've mentioned before, he and I take regular trips on the subway into and around Boston and surrounding cities including Cambridge and Somerville. Whenever I would propose checking out this pedestrian walkway connecting Cambridge to Boston's Charlestown neighborhood, he had no interest. Finally, on a recent warm summer day, he relented.
The North Bank Pedestrian Bridge connects North Point Park in Cambridge to Paul Revere Park in Charlestown, crossing over railroad tracks and Millers River, and under Interstate 93, the Zakim Bridge and some off-ramps and on-ramps along the way. We started in Cambridge and made it under the highway, but Owen didn't want to continue on to Charlestown. Maybe some other time.
Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the new perspective on Boston and Cambridge. The bridge opened in 2012, 19 years after funds were allocated by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority as part of an agreement made during the construction of the Central Artery / Tunnel project (aka The Big Dig). Better late than never.
North Point Park is really nice; I look forward to checking out Paul Revere Park some day.
(A hopper car on a side track under an off-ramp.)
(Former Boston Maine Railroad Signal Tower. I think the MBTA uses this building now.)
(The walkway, left foreground, goes over Millers River and under the Leverett off-ramp and Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge (aka the Zakim, aka the ZBH) on its way to Charlestown.)
(Heading back toward North Point Park we saw loads of skateboarders at the Lynch Family Skatepark, also located under some on- and off-ramps. For more about the skatepark and the surrounding area known as Prison Point, see October 27, 2017, "Set Yourself Free on Prison Point.")
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