Description

Straddling the Charles River between downtown Boston and the city of Cambridge, this 2165-foot span (officially known as the Harvard Bridge) was built back in 1891, and then rebuilt later in the century. Fun fact: Harvard folks felt smugly that their school deserved to have the bridge named after it. The rival brains down the road at MIT concurred when they did a structural analysis of the bridge and found it to be defect-ridden. It also has four lanes for motor vehicles, there are walkways for biking, walking and running

History

Its often called Mass Ave. Bridge. Its built across one of the widest parts of the Charles River. It originally had a wooden surface. Its really not very close to Harvard at all but is much closer to M.I.T

Other

M.I.T Students once measured the bridge by tipping 5 foot 3 (Oliver Smoots) head over heals from Boston to Cambridge. The official length of the Harvard Bridge is 364.4 Smoots plus on ear, as measured by the MIT fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha using pledge Oliver Smoot, class of 1962.

According to Smoot

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