Bridge out ahead

Key part of O’Brien Highway inbound to shut

Inbound traffic was heavy on the Craigie bridge yesterday, but repairs will close that route beginning tomorrow. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)

By Eric Moskowitz

Globe Staff / November 5, 2010

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As bridges go, the Craigie is not much to look at. From the roadway, it scarcely seems a bridge at all, just a long, flat stretch of pavement in the shadow of the Lechmere Viaduct. But as an artery between Boston and Cambridge, it is vital, carrying nearly 25,000 cars in each direction every day — almost twice as many as the grander Longfellow Bridge half a mile up the Charles River. (Full article: 1067 words)