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General Information

Other name(s): Jamestown Bridge
Beginning of works: 1985
Completion: 20 October 1992
Status: in use

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Location

Location: , , ,
Replaces: Jamestown Bridge (1940)
Coordinates: 41° 31' 42.29" N    71° 24' 12.16" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 194 m
total length 2 240 m
deck width 22 m
number of lanes 2 x 2

Materials

deck prestressed concrete
piers reinforced concrete
abutments reinforced concrete

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (often misspelled Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge) 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

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 ft (2,240 m). It 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. The cracks were repaired in 2008.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20004027
  • Published on:
    30/06/2002
  • Last updated on:
    11/10/2018
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