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The Providence River Bridge is visible in the immediate background. The Fox Point Hurricane Barrier is a 3,000-foot (910 m) long tidal flood barrier spanning the Providence River in Providence, Rhode Island, located 750 feet (230 m) upstream from Fox Point. It was constructed between 1960 and 1966 to protect the low-lying downtown area of the ...
The Henderson Bridge (also locally and informally known as the New Red Bridge) is a bridge in Rhode Island which spans the Seekonk River, and connects the East Side neighborhood of Providence with the Watchemoket and Phillipsdale neighborhoods of East Providence. After a major reconstruction, the bridge reopened to automobile traffic in phases ...
The Claiborne Pell Bridge, commonly known as the Newport Bridge, is a suspension bridgeoperated by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authoritythat spans the East Passage of the Narragansett Bayin Rhode Island(northeastern United States). The bridge, part of RI 138, connects the city of Newporton Aquidneck Islandand the Town of Jamestownon ...
The cameras would be posted throughout the city, and would capture the license plate of cars breaking the city's noise ordinance. Here's how Providence's mayor is making a case for noise cameras ...
The replacement of the I-95's Wellington Avenue bridge at the Providence/Cranston line will cause headaches for drivers. Traffic Alert: I-95 to get month of lane splits and closures near ...
The Washington Bridge is a series of three bridges carrying Interstate 195, US Route 6, US Route 44, and U.S. Route 1A over the Seekonk River connecting India Point in Providence to Watchemoket Square in East Providence, Rhode Island. The historic portion of the bridge dating to 1930 serves as the pedestrian crossing, and bike link to the East ...
In May 2019, the Rhode Island Senate announced that the state would borrow $200 million to reconfigure I-95 through Downtown Providence, near the southern terminus of Route 146. The replacement of the Providence Viaduct with twin bridges is intended to alleviate the bottleneck created by traffic entering I-95 from US Route 6 (US 6) and Route 10 ...
After WW-II, Route 1A became a major route carrying traffic from southern RI to the East Side of Providence, and points east. The Point Street Bridge was part of that route, and on exceptionally hot summer days, the bridge would expand after it opened, and with nowhere to bleed off the heat, it expanded to a point where it couldn't be closed.