Pause In The Progress
Road projects near major developments will resume in early 2011.
Two sites of ongoing business development on Atwood and Hartford avenues will have distinctly different looks, once a pair of road projects are completed in 2011. Another project has provided safe crossing for residents, clients and staff of a local nonprofit agency. At the site near the former Stuart's department store, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation recently wrapped its work on the first phase of road improvements that will ultimately stretch from Old Pocasset Road to the Interstate 295 ramps, roughly 1,000 feet west. Funded by federal stimulus money, the Stuarts roadway project required varying levels of work to bring the road and sidewalks up to current standards, DOT Spokesman Charles St. Martin explained. "It was a …
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