Starting on Friday, April 8 the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will change the traffic pattern on the Atwells Avenue Bridge over I-95 in Providence, prohibiting westbound traffic toward Federal Hill. Eastbound traffic will be shifted to the left, and access toward Downtown and...
On Wednesday and Thursday nights, March 30 and 31, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will temporarily close Route 4 North for work on the Division Street Bridge project on the East Greenwich/Warwick line. The overnight closure will be repeated for the...
Congressman David Cicilline and Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) Director Peter Alviti Jr. today joined state and local leaders to break ground on a project to resurface approximately one mile of Aquidneck Avenue in Middletown, from East Main Road to Green End Avenue.
The $9...
Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) Director Peter Alviti Jr. today joined state and local leaders for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $21.3 million Kingston Road Bridge project in Richmond. The project finished on budget and five months ahead of schedule.
RIDOT completely...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will temporarily close Route 6 East at the Glenbridge Avenue Bridge in Providence overnight during the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 2. The closure will allow RIDOT to remove a beam damaged by a truck last year.
Detours will be in...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will temporarily close a portion of Main Street (Route 1A), from High Street to Belmont Avenue, in the South Kingstown village of Wakefield for tree removal work on Tuesday, February 22.
The closure will be from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and...
As part of its ongoing Route 37 bridges project in Cranston and Warwick, on Wednesday, February 2 the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will change the traffic pattern on Route 37 West between the Post Road interchange and the ramp to I-95 North.
In October 2020, RIDOT reduced...
With heavy snow and high winds creating blizzard conditions and treacherous driving on Rhode Island roads today, Governor Dan McKee has updated his executive order to expand the travel ban to cover all motor vehicles until midnight. The ban prohibits tractor-trailers and all motor vehicles from...
With heavy snow and high winds expected to create blizzard conditions and treacherous driving on Rhode Island roads on Saturday, January 29, Governor Dan McKee has issued an executive order setting in place two types of travel bans.
From 6 a.m. to midnight, all tractor-trailers, except those...
Starting on Thursday, February 17, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will shift travel lanes on Route 5 (Greenwich Avenue) near Knight Street in Warwick for reconstruction of the Pontiac Bridge over the Pawtuxet River. The Department also will reduce travel lanes from two lanes...
