Tag: Rhode Island DOT: Page 2

Roadbuilding

Route 138 resurfacing project latest in a string of RIDOT early completions

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) recently held a ceremony to honor the early completion of a resurfacing project on Route 138 in the South Kingstown area. RIDOT has recently had a string of early and on-budget project completions as it charges ahead through a department revamping of how it prioritizes and completes projects. […]

December 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT opens new Great Island Bridge in Narragansett

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) recently celebrated the opening of the new Great Island Bridge in Narragansett, a project completed eight months early and $700,000 under budget. The original bridge was completed in 1959 and was the only point of access to Great Island. It had a posted weight limit for close to […]

November 30, 2016

Roadbuilding

RIDOT bids out $174 million in construction projects through federal fiscal year 2016

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) reports it has put $174 million in construction projects out for bid for the 2016 federal fiscal year, an increase of $60 million compared to the previous year and $74 million more than 2014. The agency reported these results in its most recently quarterly report release Nov. 17. […]

November 18, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT re-opens Hussey Bridge 8 months ahead of schedule

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has reopened the Clarence L. Hussey Memorial Bridge in Wickford eight months ahead of the original project schedule. The bridge was slated to reopen with “substantial completion” in July 2017, but reached that designation November 1. Repairs and improvements included a special mineral coating to concrete surfaces to […]

November 3, 2016

Roadbuilding

FHWA, FTA approve Rhode Island DOT’s 10-year transportation plan

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration have approved the Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s (RIDOT) 10-year transportation plan. This is the first time these agencies have approved such a plan for the state and the third time for any state in the country. The plan, which RIDOT says is “the backbone” […]

October 17, 2016

Roadbuilding

FHWA agrees with Rhode Island’s truck-only bridge tolling

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has executed 13 Memorada of Understanding with the Federal Highway Administration, indicating the federal agency agrees with the state’s bridge tolls on heavy commercial trucks. The tolls provide part of the funding to bridge repairs under the RhodeWorks program. RhodeWorks, signed into law in February, provides for the […]

October 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

RIDOT demolishes, installs East Shore Expy. Bridge in just 80 hours (Time-lapse)

Over the span of just 80 hours, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation carried out a rapid bridge replacement of the East Shore Expressway Bridge in East Providence. Between September 9 and 13 the department demolished the old bridge—classified as functionally obsolete with significant concrete cracking—and installed a new span which was built in temporary […]

September 27, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT starts second 80-hour bridge replacement this month with McCormick Quarry Bridge

For the second time this month, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will be replacing a bridge in East Providence within 80 hours. The agency will begin the replacement of the McCormick Quarry Bridge starting tonight at 9 p.m. RIDOT says the bridge, built in 1959, has been structurally deficient for more than 20 […]

September 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT to replace East Shore Expressway Bridge in 80 hours

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is planning for a rapid bridge replacement of the East Shore Expressway Bridge in East Providence in just 80 hours beginning September 9. Conventional replacement would take a year and cause prolonged traffic congestion, the agency says. The bridge carries traffic from Interstate 195 East at Exit 7 […]

September 6, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT reorganizes senior management with 9 new appointments

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has named nine new members to its senior management group as it works on the biggest staff reorganization in the agency’s history. “As we work diligently to improve our roads and bridges, we are working hard to rebuild RIDOT itself, creatng a more robust, accountable and efficient organizational […]

June 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT will replace structurally deficient bridges with slide-in construction

In 2014, data from the Federal Highway Administration ranked Rhode Island as the worst of the 50 states for structurally deficient bridges. With so many of its bridges needing to be rebuilt, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is planning to use a faster method for reconstruction. WPRI.com reports that reconstruction will begin with the McCormick Quarry Bridge in East Providence, which […]

April 28, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT reorganization to include Division of Project Management enhancements

As part of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s (RIDOT) efforts to reorganize to improve project delivery, the agency is changing and adding new positions as well as enhancing its new Division of Project Management (DPM). The DPM is charged with oversight and management of projects from design through completion. RIDOT recently held public hearings on […]

March 4, 2016