- North Point Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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North Point Park is an 8.5-acre (34,000 m2) park located on the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created as mitigation for the taking of planned parkland for the construction of the Big Dig. The park opened in December 2007. It 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 by several years on account of 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 the local press. The park designers were Carr Lynch & Sandell of Cambridge and Oehme van Sweden of Washington, DC.[1] The park is adjacent to (but not part of) the ongoing NorthPoint real estate development project. Just upstream of these three new parks is the Dr. Paul Dudley White Charles River Bike Path in the Charles River Reservation.
The North Bank Bridge, designed for pedestrians and cyclists and funded by the American Recoverery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), is now under construction over the MBTA Commuter Rail tracks which will connect North Point Park with Paul Revere Park in Charlestown. The expected completion of the bridge is mid-2012. Pedestrian bridges are also planned over the Charles River from North Point Park to Nashua Street Park in Boston, and 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. These three stunning parks along the Charles will then be linked together, and the Charles River Reservation will finally be connected to Boston Harbor.[2][3]
References
- ^ North Point Park in Cambridge nearly ready to open at last. The Boston Globe
- ^ http://www.recovery.org/stimulusprojectdetails.aspx?pid=ANT:9740131&gloc=MIDDLESEX [MA]*CNT:25017
- ^ http://transportation.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2009/11/massdot-board-approves-north-bank-bridge.html
Coordinates: 42°22′08″N 71°04′19″W / 42.36889°N 71.07194°W
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