The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) weathered the Flood of 2010 by using its website, www.dot.ri.gov, as well as its Facebook and Twitter sites to share information about road closures. The numbers of users was astronomically high and illustrates the importance of web and social...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation RIDOT today is closing a section of Industrial Drive in Providence to vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Local access for businesses on the Corliss Street side of Industrial Drive will be maintained. Those who normally use this road to drive to and from...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is scheduled to making some interim changes to traffic patterns on Wickenden Street in Providence beginning tomorrow, Friday, March 25, 2010. The changes were initially scheduled to occur yesterday, but were postponed due to rainy weather...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced today that it is making some interim changes to traffic patterns on Wickenden Street in Providence beginning next week on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. The changes are required as part of the Iway project, and involve the use of new...
Rhode Island saw two very different outcomes from seat belt use this week. On Tuesday, March 9 a driver, who was involved in a single car crash, rolled his vehicle, was ejected and killed. On Thursday, March 11 a driver, who was struck from behind by another vehicle, rolled his vehicle and...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today released “Putting People to Work,” a report on Rhode Island’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funded projects. The release of the document coincides with the one-year anniversary, February 17, 2009, of the...
On the cusp of the one year anniversary of the stimulus bill, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has been recognized in an American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) stimulus report entitled, “Projects and Paychecks: A One-Year Report on State...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has been chosen as one of four states that will highlight a report being put out tomorrow, Tuesday, February 9, 2010 by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). AASHTO’s report is entitled, “Projects...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced today that it has closed the on-ramp from Hummocks Avenue in Portsmouth to Route 24 North. The closure is necessary to allow construction to proceed on the new Sakonnet River Bridge. Specifically, RIDOT will be rehabilitating the...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced today that it has received approval to add eight new projects to its economic recovery program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
The eight new projects are in addition to the 54 projects RIDOT...
