Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge
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The Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge spans the West Passage of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, United States. It is part of Route 138 and is part of the route to Newport, Rhode Island for traffic heading northbound from Interstate 95.
The bridge is a post-tensioned, double-cell concrete box girder bridge with four travel lanes separated by a concrete Jersey barrier (the original bridge was dangerous with two undivided lanes). The total length of the bridge is 7,350 ft (2,240 m) and links the towns of North Kingstown, Rhode Island and the island town of Jamestown, Rhode Island.
[edit] History
The bridge was completed in 1992 and was built alongside the two lane bridge that had served the same route since 1940. The original Jamestown Bridge was demolished in April 2006.
