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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Repairs to railroad tracks at Allens Avenue in Providence and on a Route 95 bridge in West Greenwich will result in lane closures starting Wednesday and Friday, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.

On Wednesday in West Greenwich, concrete will be poured on the northbound Route 95 bridge over Weaver Hill Road, between Exits 5 and 6, about a mile south of Exit 6. The left northbound lane will be closed from 10 a.m. to noon. Drivers are asked to slow down and use caution as they cross the bridge in the right lane.

Trucks will continue to be restricted to the right lane through early morning Friday to reduce vibration while the concrete cures, a DOT spokesman said Tuesday.

The two 40-year-old bridges that carry Route 95 over Weaver Hill Road are being improved and widened in a $4.4-million project that is scheduled to be finished in the spring of 2011. Temporary barriers on both bridges have diverted one lane to the left and one lane to the right of the bridge lane being worked on. That split-lane traffic pattern will stay in place for about a month, the RIDOT spokesman said.

Oversize vehicles are required to take Exits 5 and 6 to use Route 3 for a detour.

On Allens Avenue in Providence, a detour will be in place from 9 a.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Tuesday, October 27, to allow work on the railroad crossing just north of Terminal Road and the Port of Providence.

Local traffic will be able to access businesses near the work zone, but most drivers will be directed to take Ernest Street to Eddy Street to Oxford Street for a detour.

Crews from the DOT and the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company will work 12-hour days, depending on the weather, to install a new rubber crossing, continuous welded rails without joints, updated railroad crossing lights, and new asphalt.

Motorists are asked to seek other routes to avoid delays caused by the detour.

 Tags  Providence RI RIDOT West Greenwich RI

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