The Sakonnet River Bridge is a step closer to a new name. Last week, the Rhode Island House of Representatives approved legislation sponsored by Rep. Samuel Azzinaro to rename the span as the ...

The northbound lane of the new Sakonnet River Bridge is scheduled ... State officials have transferred the bridge to the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority with the intent of charging ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — The gantry over the Sakonnet River Bridge was removed Sunday night more than a year after the Rhode Island General Assembly voted to not collect tolls on cars and trucks ...

So now the top span of the old Sakonnet River Bridge ... car carriers onto docks at Quonset Point in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, gets container boats onto the State Pier and helps ships ...

Two studies commissioned by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority ... of safety barriers on the Newport Pell Bridge and the Sakonnet River Bridge are due later this year.