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Bridge in Rhode Island to Jamestown, Rhode Island
The
Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge
is a concrete
box girder
highway bridge which spans the West Passage of
Narragansett Bay
in
Rhode Island
,
United States
. It is part of
Rhode Island Route 138
and is on the route to
Newport, Rhode Island
for traffic heading northbound from
Interstate 95
.
Construction and design
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The bridge is named for Italian explorer
Giovanni da Verrazzano
. Construction began in 1985 and was completed in 1992, originally consisting of two undivided lanes and built alongside the
Jamestown Bridge
which had served the same route since 1940. The older bridge was demolished in April 2006.
It is a
post-tensioned
, double-cell concrete
box girder bridge
with four travel lanes separated by a concrete
Jersey barrier
. It links
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
with the island town of
Jamestown, Rhode Island
, with a total length of 7,350 feet (2,240 m). It has safety walkways on both sides, which are not accessible to pedestrians.
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The bridge was listed as structurally deficient in 2007, despite being only 15 years old at the time, due to small cracks found in some of the box girder segments.
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The cracks were repaired in 2008.
Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge seen from
Narragansett Bay
.
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