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The bridge, part of RI 138, connects the city of Newport on Aquidneck Island and the Town of Jamestown on Conanicut Island, and is named for longtime Rhode Island U.S. senator Claiborne Pell who lived in Newport. The Pell Bridge is in turn connected to the mainland by the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge.
Work on the Newport Pell Bridge and toll gantry requires travelers along Route 138 eastbound to merge into one lane just before the gantry resulting in traffic tie-ups lasting more than an hour on ...
Beginning Friday night, March 22 at 5 p.m. through Monday morning, March 25 at 7 a.m. the Rhode Island Department of Transportation is scheduled to close the left lanes on Route 138 East and West ...
Route 138 begins in Exeter at the Connecticut state line in the west and runs to the Massachusetts state line in Tiverton in the east, and is the only state-numbered route to completely cross Rhode Island. Route 138 also keeps the same route number on the other side of both state lines. Route 138 is a major thoroughfare in southern Rhode Island.
Work on the Newport Pell Bridge began on Oct. 16 with traffic eastbound reduced to one lane in a 900-yard stretch between the old toll plaza and the bridge. Traffic was also reduced to one lane ...
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 Claiborne Pell Bridge, connecting Jamestown and Newport. On a foggy night in 1975, a gasoline tanker plowed into the Mount Hope Bridge. ... Rhode Island boasts 10 semifinalists for the 2024 ...
Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge: 488 m (1,600 ft) 3,428 m (11,247 ft) Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons 2x2 lanes 210+488+210: Rhode Island Route 138 ...