Memorial Drive (Cambridge)
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| Route of Memorial Drive (Red) | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Cambridge |
| Created | 1922 |
| Hist. Names | Charles River Road |
| Connecting roads |
 US 3 / MA 2 Fresh Pond Parkway (west) MA 3 (east)
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| Cross streets |
 MA 2A / Massachusetts Avenue
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| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 4.12 mi (6.6 km ) |
The Memorial Drive is the Parkway designed street in Cambridge in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It runs along the north bank of the Charles River and is designated for its entire length as US Highway 3 or Massachusetts Route 3 . The section west of Boston University Bridge is identified as Massachusetts Route 2 .
history
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The street was run as Charles River Road until 1922 and was renamed in the wake of the takeover of Charles River Park by the Metropolitan District Commission . The name was in honor of the fallen soldiers of World War I selected.
background
The Memorial Drive is - like the other parkways along the Charles River Esplanade - part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (successor to the Metropolitan District Commission managed). Since the street leads through a local recreation area, the section between Western Avenue and Mount Auburn Hospital is closed to motorized vehicles on Sundays in the summer months and is then reserved for pedestrians, cyclists, inline skaters, etc. This regulation applies from the last Sunday in April to the second Sunday in November and comes into force on the days concerned from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The median makes a so-called Michigan Left necessary in some places to change the direction of travel .
See also
- Storrow Drive - parallel route on the south bank on the Boston side
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Trust: Executive Office of Transportation - Office of Transportation Planning Roads - June 2008 . Mass.gov. August 30, 2010. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
- ↑ Street names in Cambridge ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , compiled by the Cambridge Historical Commission , updated February 21, 2008
- ^ Memorial Drive Closed Sundays. (No longer available online.) Cambridgema.gov, archived from the original on August 20, 2011 ; accessed on October 12, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '47.2 " N , 71 ° 6' 57.8" W.
