The I-95 15 | Repairing Yesterday’s Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Economy

  • The I-95 15 Project
    I-95 South Over Elmwood Ave, Cranston
  • The I-95 15 Project
    I-95 North Over Elmwood Ave, Cranston
  • The I-95 15 Project
    Route 10 North On-Ramp, Cranston
  • The I-95 15 Project
    Old Narragansett Electric Co. Bridge, Cranston

The Project

The I-95 15 design-build project is the largest ever undertaken by Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) and will remove 15 bridges from the state’s backlog of poor and fair to poor condition bridges along I-95 and Route 10 between Providence and Warwick – a critical corridor which carries 185,000 vehicles daily. 

The project will take a major step in addressing the I-95 corridor holistically, to encourage the safe movement of almost 200,000 vehicles and $9.7 billion in freight. About 9,000 trucks and heavy freight vehicles use this corridor, which includes hospitals, businesses and universities, daily.

The cost of this project is offset by a recent $251 million federal Bridge Investment Program (BIP) grant made to the department.

This project will:
  • Reduce the number of bridges rated poor by 7.6%
  • Reduce the total deck area of bridges rated poor by 17.5%
  • Remove permit restrictions affecting the majority of all truck freight
  • Improve the flow of 45.2 billion tons of truck freight annually
  • Eliminate three of the top five most travelled structurally deficient bridges in the state

Project Schedule & Cost

  • Location: Providence, Cranston, Warwick
  • Start Construction: 2024
  • Finish Construction: 2031
  • Total Projected Cost: $779 Million
  • Detours Needed: Yes

Bridge Group 04-R - The I-95 15

Overview of the I-95 15 Bridges

PROJECT UPDATES | NOVEMBER, 2024

Survey work at the Broad Street and Eddy Street bridges is slated for next week, involving alternating lane closures on I-95 North, from just past Broad Street to just before Eddy Street, Sunday-Thursday nights from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.