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The Jamestown Bridge was destroyed in a controlled demolition in April 2006. On April 18, 2006, the main span of the Jamestown Bridge was brought down by Department of Transportation employee Wilfred Hernandez, using 75 pounds (34 kg) of RDX explosives and 350 shaped charges. TNT charges were later used to remove the concrete piers. On May 18 ...
The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge is a concrete box girder highway bridge which spans the West Passage of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, United States. It is part of Rhode Island Route 138 and is on the route to Newport, Rhode Island for traffic heading northbound from Interstate 95 .
Route 138 used the Stone Bridge over the Sakonnet River until 1954. Before the opening of the Jamestown section of the Route 138 Expressway in 1994, Route 138 came off the Jamestown Bridge and used Eldred Avenue (which has now been partially cut off by the Expressway) and East Shore Road to the Newport Pell Bridge .
An aerial view of the new Newport Bridge cashless toll gantry in Jamestown. In September, RITBA accepted a $10.7 million bid from Cumberland-based to construct a new toll gantry and shift the ...
Conanicut Island is a beautiful place, but for morning commuters a trip to Jamestown has become a less-than-pleasant experience. Work on the Newport Pell Bridge and toll gantry requires travelers ...
The bridge was the only toll road in Rhode Island until August 19, 2013, when the Authority began collecting tolls on the new Sakonnet River Bridge. [9] However, toll collection on that bridge ended on June 20, 2014. [10] Cash tolling was discontinued on the bridge in October 2021 in favor of all-electronic tolling through EZ-Pass or bill-by ...
An urban legend has it that tolls were to be abolished once the bridge's construction bonds were paid off, but this has been debunked by the Staten Island Advance. [213] [214] Originally, all drivers paid the same toll to cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Staten Island residents were the only residents of New York City who had to pay a toll ...
For years, the construction of suicide barriers on RITBA bridges has been debated. 2024 should be the year that decision is settled.