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The Claiborne Pell Bridge, commonly known as the Newport Bridge, is a suspension bridge operated by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority that spans the East Passage of the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island (northeastern United States).
English: Aerial view of Claiborne Pell Bridge, commonly known as the Newport Bridge, a suspension bridge operated by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority that spans the East Passage of the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The bridge, opened in 1969 and renamed for U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island in 1992, connects the city ...
Rhode Island's Newport Bridge was renamed the Claiborne Pell Bridge [74] and the Pell Center of International Relations and Public Policy was established at Salve Regina University. [75] In addition, Newport's Claiborne Pell Elementary School, which opened in 2013, was named in his honor. [76] Pell was a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor ...
The increase in traffic created by the Washington Bridge closure combined with work RITBA was doing Tuesday on the Newport Pell Bridge in which a series of 5 to 10-minute traffic stoppages in the ...
A truck drives through the Newport Pell Bridge toll plaza in 2019. With traffic backing up to the Jamestown Bridge, some have taken to exiting Route 138 and traveling onto local roads in an effort ...
“What happened to it?” a What and Why RI reader asked. “I hope they’re not selling it. I love those old letters.”
The Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge. Aquidneck Island is served by three bridges: The Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (1969) connects it to Jamestown on nearby Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay, and subsequently to the mainland on the western side of the bay.
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