Letter: How can it be $3.7 million for one small bridge?

Posted 1/10/19

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation plan to rebuild the Silver Creek Bridge seems a bit flawed to me. Spending $3.7 million to replace a culvert with a road over it seems excessive both in …

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Letter: How can it be $3.7 million for one small bridge?

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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation plan to rebuild the Silver Creek Bridge seems a bit flawed to me. Spending $3.7 million to replace a culvert with a road over it seems excessive both in cost and length of time to complete it.

The Mount Hope Bridge is 285 feet tall, 6,130 feet long and was built in two years. Silver Creek Bridge is probably about 30 feet long, maybe four feet above the water, and it’s going to take 18 months?

Surely the DOT can do better than this. Maybe the toll booth is going to take a long time to build.

Bob Hamel 
859 Hope St.

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