The Boston Globe Op-Ed: Let’s have a ‘smoot’ for Long Island Bridge — a measurement of shame

By John Bluthardt

HOW MANY politicians and bureaucrats pointing at each other would it take to span the now-closed Long Island Bridge?

Unlike the “smoot” — the fanciful metric used to measure the Mass. Ave. bridge, which was named after MIT graduate Oliver Smoot, who was laid head to toe 364.4 times — the measure for Boston’s bungled bridge might be the “smooth”.

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