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, but nearing 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.
| 2023 BIP GRANT APPLICATION |
| I-95 15 Grant Fact Sheet |
| I-95 15 Proposed Schematics Overview |
| I-95 Southbound Weekend Closure Detour Map |
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We have some major operations coming up the weekends of November 7 and 14. We will decommission a bridge over an inactive rail line near Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence. This will involve the closures of the two right lanes on I-95 North (beginning after the Route 10 interchange) and I-95 South (after the Thurbers Avenue interchange) from 8 p.m. on Friday night, November 7 through 5 a.m. on Monday morning, November 10. The following weekend, we will close the two left lanes in each direction of I-95, from 8 p.m. Friday night, November 14 through 5 a.m. on Monday morning, November 17. Between the two weekends, from November 10-14, there will be a lane split on I-95 South at this location with two lanes on either side of the split. All lanes go through. Next week at this project, we plan to install netting and shielding for bridge demolition at the Eddy Street and Broad Street bridges, continue to build a pier within the I-95 median at the Huntington North Bridge, and mobilize for demolition at the Pawtuxet River Bridge. Motorists can expect alternating lane closures on both directions of I-95, from Thurbers Avenue to Jefferson Boulevard, Sunday-Thursday nights from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. |
