Using a novel approach, crews expect to finish the final phase of the $20-million Newport Pell Bridge deck rehabilitation project by Thanksgiving, with substantial completion on New England’s longest suspension bridge by year’s end.
The 11,247-ft-long Newport Pell Bridge, which carries Rhode Island-138 over the Narragansett Bay between Jamestown and Newport, is important to the region because it provides the main connectivity from the mainland over to Aquidneck Island, says Eric Seabury, engineering director at the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA).