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 . It is a segment of the Mass Central Rail Trail and the East Coast Greenway .
6-916: The bridge leaves the ground from the east side of the Cambridge portion of North Point Park (other parts of which are in the city of Boston ). It crosses the MBTA Commuter Rail tracks leading into North Station , crosses the Millers River , and goes under the highway lanes of the Leverett Connector and Route 1 . It lands on the east side of the Millers River under the Zakim Bridge / Interstate 93 , where it connects to Paul Revere Park in Charlestown . The state-owned bridge opened in 2012. This article about
12-720: A bridge in Massachusetts is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . North Point Park (Massachusetts) North Point Park is an 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) park located along the left bank of the Charles River on the border of Cambridge and Boston , Massachusetts , created as mitigation for the taking of planned parkland for the construction of the Big Dig . The state-owned park opened in December 2007. The municipal boundary between Cambridge and Boston
18-681: Is located in North Point Park under the Interstate 93 highway ramps. Pedestrians and bicyclists may travel east from North Point Park to Paul Revere Park in Charlestown over the MBTA Commuter Rail tracks and the mouth of Miller's River via the North Bank Bridge that opened on July 13, 2012. This bridge, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), allows pedestrians to traverse
24-600: The local press. The park was designed by Carr Lynch & Sandell of Cambridge and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates of Washington, DC. The park is adjacent to the ongoing NorthPoint real estate development project. Just upstream of the three new parks in the half-mile (North Point Park, Paul Revere Park , and Nashua Street Park ) is the Paul Dudley White Bike Path in the Charles River Reservation . The Lynch Family Skatepark
30-738: The north side of the Charles River basin. Pedestrian bridges are also planned over the Charles River from North Point Park to Nashua Street Park in Boston, and a South Bank Bridge over the MBTA Commuter Rail tracks on the south bank of the river from Nashua Street Park to the riverfront just upstream of the Zakim Bridge south tower, connecting the Charles River Reservation to Boston Harbor. A portion of
36-618: Was historically approximately along the center of Charles River, but construction of the park moved the shoreline, putting part of the park in Boston. The park is part of the "lost half mile" of the Charles River, between the 1910 Charles River Dam , now the site of the Museum of Science , and the new Charles River Dam completed in 1978. The park opening was delayed for several years by a number of logistical and bureaucratic issues, but its design, including small islands, bridges and kayaking canals, has been characterized as "grand" and "ambitious" by
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