Carries Route 138 Construction started 12 June 1985 Location North Kingstown Material Concrete | Total length 2,240 m Opened 1992 Bridge type Box girder bridge | |
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Crosses West Passage of Narragansett Bay Locale North Kingstown, Rhode Island to Jamestown, Rhode Island Design post-tensioned, double-cell concrete box girder Similar Claiborne Pell Newport, Mount Hope Bridge, Sakonnet River Bridge, Lime Rock, Whale Rock | ||
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 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 consisted of 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. Despite being only 15 years old at the time, the bridge was listed as structurally deficient in 2007 due to small cracks found in some of the box girder segments. The cracks were repaired in 2008.
Bicycles are not permitted on the bridge as a part of a limited access highway, but Rhode Island Public Transit Authority bus #64 has bike racks without Sunday service.
History
Construction on the bridge began in 1985, and it was completed in 1992. It was built alongside the Jamestown Bridge, which had served the same route since 1940. The older bridge was demolished in April 2006.
The bridge is named for Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano.