Local, state and federal officials along with the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) recently gathered to highlight the largest-ever federal grant awarded to RIDOT and to kick off the new I-95 15 bridges project. The project will remove 15 bridges from the state’s backlog of poor and fair to poor condition bridges along I-95 and Route 10 between Providence and Warwick.
The project takes a holistic approach to addressing these bridges to ensure the safe movement of over 185,000 vehicles, including about 9,000 trucks and heavy freight vehicles. Nine of the 15 bridges are structurally deficient. Three are rated among the top five most traveled structurally deficient bridges in Rhode Island.
A total of 11 bridges will be repaired and four will be eliminated. RIDOT also will rebuild Route 10 from Elmwood Avenue to Park Avenue – transforming it into a boulevard with a shared use path to provide better connectivity for all users.
Work on the project begins immediately, and RIDOT expects the Elmwood Avenue Bridge, which carries I-95 over Elmwood Avenue in Providence, to be the first bridge repaired. It will be replaced using accelerated bridge construction methods beginning late summer/early fall. The entire project will last seven years, finishing in 2031.
All construction projects are subject to changes in schedule and scope depending on needs, circumstances, findings and weather.
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