The idea of building the bridge had begun since the Friendship Bridge was built in 1965, between Brazil and Paraguay. Construction started in January 13, 1982 and officially inaugurated in November 29, 1985. The bridge is 489 metres long, 16.5 metres large and 70 metres in the highest point.
It is of much less economic importance to the region than the Friendship Bridge and does not have the traffic and social problems that the latter one have nowadays.
Crossing pedestrians are reminded by length markers painted at 10-smoot intervals by MIT fraternity brothers, that it is 364.4 smoots and one ear.
According to MIT legend, the bridge is so named, despite the fact that it is nearer to MIT than to Harvard (and is also known informally around Boston as the "MIT bridge"), because when it was originally constructed, the state offered to name it after the Cambridge school that was most deserving.
The bridge deck was rebuilt on the existing supports in the late 1980s to repair structural deterioration and address issues raised by the 1983 collapse of the Interstate 95 similarly designed Mianus River Bridge in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The FraternityBridge (a direct translation of "Ponte da Fraternidade", actual official name is Tancredo NevesBridge) connects the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu with Puerto Iguazu, in the country of Argentina, passing through the Iguassu River.
The idea of building the bridge had begun since the Friendship Bridge was built in 1965, between Brazil and Paraguay.
The bridge is 489 metres long, 16.5 metres large and 70 metres in the highest point.
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