Poppasquash Road to Close for Repairs Beginning Tuesday, Dec. 18
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced the closure — which will require a detour through Colt State Park to reach Coggeshall Farm Road — to repair damage from Hurricane Sandy.
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Crews from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation are scheduled to shut down Poppasquash Road to through traffic beginning Tuesday, Dec. 18, to repair damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, the agency announced today.
In a statement, RIDOT said that the road will be closed from Hope Street to Coggeshall Farm Road through February, 2013, though local access to residences and businesses in the area will be permitted.
The $1.7 million project includes removal and replacement of damaged pavement, repair to damaged seawalls and drainage pipes, and replacement of the Poppasquash Road Bridge, according to the RIDOT statement.
RIDOT also announced that traffic will be detoured through Colt State Park, starting from Asylum Road at Hope Street, and following Colt Drive to Coggeshall Farm Road.
See the attached map for more information.
How does the closure of Poppasquash Road affect you? Tell us in the comments.
charles
5:07 pm on Monday, December 17, 2012
the town is fixing all the streets new like wall st buttonwood st is the one needs to be done new to many cars pass by it no car or a few go by wall st town needs to do better for the taxe payer
Nancy L. Richard
12:00 pm on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
For all intents and purpose, Poppasquash has been closed since Sandy (open only to the Windmill Point condominiums). The town needs to consider the damage that heavy equipment and construction vehicles will do to any new replacement bridge. I don't believe that any new bridge will be meant to take the kind of weight that the old bridge has had to bear. Perhaps there should be weight restrictions?