Facts
- Overview
- Suspension bridge over East Passage Narragansett Bay on RI 138 in Newport
- Location
- Newport County, Rhode Island
- Status
- Open to toll traffic
- History
- Built 1969
- Design
- Wire suspension
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 1,600.1 ft.
Total length: 11,248.6 ft.
Deck width: 47.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.2 ft.
- Also called
- Claiborne Pell Bridge (official name)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.50500, -71.34278 (decimal degrees)
41°30'18" N, 71°20'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- RI 9000 (Rhode Island bridge number)
BH 31906 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 12/2000)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 59.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1999)
- 25,354
Comments
Newport Bridge
This bridge replaced a ferry between Newport and Jamestown, RI. I have many memories of the ferry, including more than once rounding the bend in Jamestown trying to catch a certain ferry and seeing it pulling out of the slip!
In 2001 beautiful lights were placed on the spans for nightime illumination. My daughter once told me that the arches of the Roman Baths were as high as the arches in the uprights of this bridge.