The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced today a new traffic pattern for Route 2 (South County Trail) in South County that features a center turning lane to improve safety and make it easier to make left turns into homes, businesses and side streets.
The new traffic...
"Little Roady Shuttle" to aid research on autonomous vehicle technology
Governor Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) Director Peter Alviti, Jr., along with state and local officials, today kicked off the Little Roady autonomous vehicle pilot...
More than $700 million in active construction this year
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today kicked off the 2019 construction season at the I-295 bridges over Plainfield Pike on the Johnston/Cranston line. The $22.6 million project is one of many large-...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is scheduled to resurface Route 78 East and West in Westerly starting Monday, April 22. The eastbound side will be first, with the westbound side scheduled for after Labor Day. The limited access highway, which carries 19,000 vehicles per day,
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is reminding motorists that construction will begin on the Oxford Street Bridge, which carries I-95 North and South over Oxford Street, just north of Thurbers Avenue in Providence, on Saturday, April 13. This will require a temporary traffic...
National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 8-12, 2019
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today marked National Work Zone Awareness Week at an event which highlighted the story of a RIDOT worker injured in a crash this winter. Joe Molis, who is still...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced today that it will implement a traffic pattern change along a portion of Elmwood Avenue starting next week on Monday, April 15. Called a road diet, the changes are designed to increase safety and make it easier to make left turns into...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today announced that on Monday, April 15, it will close the Geneva Pond Bridge, which carries Route 7 (Douglas Avenue) over the West River at the Providence/North Providence line. As part of this $5.2 million project, RIDOT will completely...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today asked the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to "formally rescind the Sakonnet River Bridge 2013 Revised ROD (Record of Decision)." The request was made in a letter sent to the FHWA Division Administrator.
The 2013 ROD, in effect,...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) plans to start repairs on the Portsmouth side of the Old Stone Bridge causeway within the next two weeks. A section of the causeway eroded and broke off into the Sakonnet River on Friday, March 22, 2019 causing potential impediments to...
