BOSTON (AP) - State officials will be gathering to celebrate the renovation of the historic Longfellow Bridge.
It took about five years and $300 million, but the span over the Charles River connecting Boston and Cambridge fully reopened to traffic, bicyclists and pedestrians on Thursday morning.
On Friday, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker will join state transportation officials and several Democratic lawmakers for a ceremony officially marking the completion of the project.
The 110-year-old bridge named for the famed 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has been undergoing renovations since 2013, during which it has alternately closed to incoming or outgoing traffic.
The reconstruction had been expected to take three years but dragged on for five in part because of the need to preserve the span’s historic character.
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