(WJAR) — The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority responded to the National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendation to assess the Newport Pell Bridge after the deadly Baltimore ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA) has chosen an engineering firm to conduct a vulnerability assessment of the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge.

The Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge in Rhode Island was included in the report. The NTSB says the bridges identified need to be evaluated to determine their risk, and a lack of evaluation does not ...

The bill wants the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to add safety barriers such as netting to three bridges; the Newport, Mount Hope, and Jamestown bridges. Mark Gonsalves Sr.

The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority has begun to study the potential impact of a vessel strike at the Newport Pell Bridge. Nearly a year after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland ...

PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority ... a vulnerability assessment of the 56-year-old bridge that connects Newport and Jamestown over Narragensett Bay, and is commonly ...

Some people refused to cross it. In 1969, the Newport Bridge, now the Pell Bridge, opened between Aquidneck Island and Conanicut Island, providing the first crossing east from Conanicut.