No Recent Action on Plans For Eliot Memorial Bridge

Despite two attempts to push through plans for the Eliot Memorial Bridge to be built at Gerry's Landing, near the Browne and Nichola School, future action regarding this bridge is uncertain. Since the last try about two months ago, nothing has happened.

The first action was taken last fall when the Planning Board made a sketch of a 100 feet stagle apan bridge, 40 feet wide, In February, along with all the other numerous PWA projects, was one to build this bridge, but the Legislature turned it down.

Then, about two months ago, Henry I. Harriman, President of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, brought it up before the ERA as a possible project, but since then nothing more has been heard.

The bridge gets its name from the fact that it was going to be built 100 years after the birth of President Eliot in 1834 and it was hoped that it would be completed in time for the Tercentenary Celebration. That idea has been abandoned.