To the editor:
The closing of the Pleasant St. Bridge (https://www.eastbayri.com/east-providence/stories/busy-hunts-mills-bridge-in-east-providence-will-soon-close-for-reconstruction,105171?) is truly a pain for all who use it to go from Seekonk to East Providence and beyond, as well as traveling from East Providence to Seekonk and beyond.

The powers that be who oversee traffic control from E.P. to Seekonk are to be commended for their signage approaching the closed bridge. In addition to two large automated warnings that the bridge is closed, there is a sign along the side of the road approaching the bridge that only local residents should continue.

My complaint surrounds the daily police detail located along Pleasant St. With three signs approaching the closed bridge, you would think that an additional warning is not needed.

If someone ignored the warning signs and traveled to the closed bridge, you wound think they would not make the same mistake again.

While I understand that details at a work site are needed, I wonder why the Traffic Control vehicle is not located at the work site.

Hopefully, it is needed, but I question its placement.

Gerry Griffin
Rumford