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FAA agrees with Picozzi request for airport road work
Ever since Mayor Frank Picozzi and Jon Savage, chair of the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, dined on Philly cheese steak sandwiches at Chelo’s in February, the volume has been turned down … more
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Repaving the leviathan
When it comes to repaving city streets, Eric Earls doesn’t make promises. The Warwick Director of Public Works has learned there are too many variables from the funding, what utilities may … more
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MORE OF THIS TO COME: Traffic backed up at the intersection of Post and Airport Roads earlier this week as crews squeezed lanes in preparation for the repaving of Post Road. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Rough roads ahead
Next section of Post Road repaving to start next week Those driving Post Road may have noticed consistent work on the road’s sidewalks, and crews thinning parts of the road to one lane as … more
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SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: In addition to state highway work including completion of the repaving of Post Road, the city has budgeted about $4 million in city road projects this summer. Work started last week.
Intense road repaving set this summer
If you frequently drive West Shore Road from Hoxsie Four Corners, you know what side of the lane to hug to avoid the rattling thump of partially sunken manhole covers. And then there is the … more
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STEVE ANDOLFO
Mr. Shapiro’s Silk Road
It was 1976.  I was a rookie, substitute teacher at Toll Gate High School.  The students had just finished pelting me with spit balls. After they had run out of paper wads. … more
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New Quonset construction includes Warwick project
At a press conference held Monday at Quonset, Gov. Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced that the state would receive $81 million in federal funds to help better … more
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Road work to come
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has a full slate of projects planned that will impact Warwick roads, bridges, the airport and even the station in the year ahead and beyond. … more
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IT’S GOING TO COME DOWN: The Route 37 ramp over Post Road, now supported by wooden “logs” that looked to be swayed under the load, will come down and replaced by an at-grade intersection. Derek Torrey from the Federal Highway Administration addresses the July 21 press conference at Balise Auto to announce a federal $25 million grant enabling the project. (Warwick Beacon photos)
Remake of Rte. 37, Post Rd. intersection hailed
There was nothing but applause for the state’s Congressional delegation, and in particular Senator Jack Reed, for securing two federal Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and … more
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BEATING INCIDENT:  In August 2021, a woman was dragged from her car and beaten by a gang of around 10 dirt bike and ATV riders after she honked her horn at a Providence intersection, while her young child and dog were inside the car. Providence Police asked for tips to identify the suspects and eventually made one arrest. These images were taken from screenshots of video footage from the incident. Johnston, Cranston and Providence police have all pledged to crackdown on the illicit operation of recreational vehicles on town and city roads as warm weather approaches in the Ocean State.
‘Off-road’ means stay off the damn road!
In August 2021, a woman was dragged from her car and beaten by a gang of around 10 dirt bike and ATV riders after she honked her horn at a Providence intersection. Her young child and dog were inside … more
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Signs of things to come
Rhode Island Energy will pave West Shore Road between Frawley Street and West Greeley as the final step to its gas main replacement work that has been going over the past year. Milling will begin the … more
Where the dollar meets the road
If you ever want to make your head spin, taking a look at Rhode Island DOT’s 2022 Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) ought to do the trick. The 73-page document outlines the … more
What it might look this morning
Rain earlier this week postponed the “dieting” of Main Avenue from Greenwich Avenue to the Greenwood Bridge with the reduction from four to two travel lanes. Charles St. Martin, spokesman … more
A costly toll for RI’s roads, and reputation
With a federal judge ruling that Rhode Island’s truck tolling program — first switched on in 2018 and responsible for generating nearly $100 million in revenue to the state since — … more
EG stroll is today, portion of Main St. closed to vehicles
The East Greenwich Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Main Street Stroll known as a Taste of East Greenwich today. The event features a number of restaurants on Main Street using a blocked off section … more
SHAPIRO
Shapiro: A fitting name for a road to education
By ALEX MALM When WPRI Chief Meteorologist Tony Petrarca was a Toll Gate sophomore when he got called down to the principal’s office because of the amount of tardies he had. Nervous about … more
IT CAN BE A SQUEEZE: With a width of 40 feet for four lanes of traffic and no shoulder, Main Avenue has been the site of numerous serious accidents. (Warwick Beacon photo)
‘Diet’ aimed at making Main Avenue safer
By JOHN HOWELL Mayor Frank Picozzi, Col. Brad Connor and the state DOT all favor putting Main Avenue on a “diet” from Greenwich Avenue to the Post Road and Jefferson Boulevard … more
SHARING THE TAB: In order to attract development and extend that section of Post Road RIDOT is scheduled to repave this year, Mayor Frank Picozzi is proposing the city chip in $700,000 to have the road repaved from Coronado Road to Main Avenue. Pictured is that section of Post Road between Coronado and the Airport Connector. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Picozzi willing to chip in for repaving Post Rd.
The Department of Transportation and Mayor Frank Picozzi agree that Post Road needs to be repaved. But the mayor isn’t happy with RIDOT’s plan to repave only a section of … more
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Pawtuxet River bridge on Rte.5 reduced to 2 lanes Feb. 7
Starting on Monday, February 7, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will shift travel lanes on Route 5 (Greenwich Avenue) near Knight Street in Warwick for reconstruction of the Pontiac Bridge over the Pawtuxet River. The Department more
When will it ever stop?
When will it ever stop? The ongoing replacement of natural gas mains on West Shore Road from Wilde's Corner west has narrowed traffic to a single lane on multiple occasions leaving motorists to question when the construction will end and when it does more
HALF THE STORY: Frederick Street and Budlong Avenue in Norwood, which had one lane of travel repaved after National Grid replaced gas mains, are not slated for complete repaving at this time. Meanwhile, a cone marks a pothole at the intersection of the two roads.
Half-and-half roads not likely to be repaved this time
By JOHN HOWELL Half a repaved road is better than none. That's what you would imagine unless you live on the neglected half or are faced with a half with potholes in a major neighborhood thoroughfare. Frederick Street and Budlong Avenue in Norwood are more
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