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 ...

This list included the Clairborne Pell Bridge which connects Jamestown and Newport, because it was built prior to current risk thresholds accepted by the NTSB. While RITBA states it has already ...

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.

(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 ...

wrote the agency has contacted an engineering firm to complete a vulnerability assessment of the 56-year-old bridge that connects Newport and Jamestown over Narragensett Bay, and is commonly known ...