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November 5 2025 Vol. LXIII • No. 23
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This photo depicts backfilling between the new retaining wall and wingwall on the south end of the new northbound Tower Hill Road Bridge. Crews transitioned from multiple fill types with peastone directly at the backwalls, then reinforced stone backfill under the approach slabs, then pervious fill up to the existing abutment that remains in place.
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A $38.5 million project on one of Rhode Island’s most traveled routes to the state’s beaches is wrapping up. The Tower Hill Road project includes the replacement of the 57-year-old Tower Hill Road Bridge, which carries both southbound and northbound lanes of Tower Hill Road over
Route 138 in North Kingstown, as well as resurfacing of 6.5 mi. of Tower Hill Road — US-1 — from the Route 4 split in North Kingstown to the Oliver Stedman Government Center in South Kingstown. “The main part of the project was rapid bridge construction,” said Charles St. Martin, spokesman of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT). “Route 1, see HILL page 16
MassDOT Highway Official Talks About State’s Aging Infrastructure, Rising Costs Massachusetts’s roadways are at a “critical inflection point” with aging assets, a surge of new funding from Fair Share and an urgency to deliver safer infrastructure faster, according to Jonathan Gulliver, the state Department of Transportation’s highway administrator. Gulliver spoke recently at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce forum on the “State of the Highways & Bridges,” the chamber’s latest meeting in its “Transportation First” series, according to StreetsblogMASS. Jim Rooney, president and CEO of the Greater Boston
Chamber of Commerce, opened the session with a framing of the Transportation First series by highlighting housing, climate, economic mobility and regional competitiveness. He emphasized that transportation is not a “standalone” issue, but rather the “thread that ties everything else together.” Gulliver reflected on MassDOT’s focus over the past year, from modernizing project delivery and cutting red tape, to making design safer, faster and more transparent. see ROADS page 12