Bowker Overpass

Philip G. Bowker Overpass
Bowker Overpass at Commonwealth Avenue
Carries	Charlesgate Street
Crosses	Commonwealth Avenue Beacon Street Interstate 90
Locale	Boston, Massachusetts
Material	steel
Opened	1965
Coordinates	42°20′57.36″N 71°5′32.31″W / 42.3492667°N 71.0923083°W / 42.3492667; -71.0923083Coordinates: 42°20′57.36″N 71°5′32.31″W / 42.3492667°N 71.0923083°W / 42.3492667; -71.0923083

The Philip G. Bowker Overpass is a steel beam bridge with a suspended deck carrying Charlesgate Street over Commonwealth Avenue, Beacon Street, and Interstate 90. It connects Boylston Street to Storrow Drive. It runs parallel to the Muddy River. In 2011, there was talk about tearing down the bridge and widening local streets as the bridge is considered an eyesore and bisects the Emerald Necklace.^[1]

References

v t e Road transportation infrastructure of Boston Interstate Highways I-90 (Mass Pike) I-93 I-95 U.S. Routes US 1 US 3 US 20 State Routes Route 1A Route 2 Route 2A Route 3 Route 9 Route 28 Route 30 Route 99 Route 128 Route 145 Route 203 Parkways Arborway Blue Hills Day Boulevard Fenway Jamaicaway Memorial Drive Morrissey Boulevard Morton Street Park Drive Riverway Stony Brook Soldiers Field Road Storrow Drive Truman VFW West Roxbury Major streets Beacon Street Bennington Street Boylston Street Columbus Avenue Commonwealth Avenue Dorchester Avenue Huntington Avenue Massachusetts Avenue Newbury Street State Street Tremont Street Washington Street Bridges Anderson Boston University Bowker Overpass Charlestown Eliot Harvard Leverett Circle Connector Longfellow North Beacon Street Tobin Zakim Bunker Hill Tunnels Callahan Dewey Square Sumner Thomas P. O'Neill Jr Ted Williams Expressways East Boston John F. Fitzgerald (Central Artery) Northeast Northern Northwest Southeast Southwest (Southwest Corridor) Western Yankee Division Interchanges Braintree Split South Bay Interchange See also Big Dig Boston Post Road Emerald Necklace Inner Belt Expressway (unbuilt) Charles River Crossings Streets in Boston Numbered Routes in MA