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This past August marked the end of the first year of work and near completion of the first phase of the new Newport Avenue Bridge in busy South Attleboro, Mass., at the Pawtucket, R.I., line. P. Gioioso & Sons Inc. of Hyde Park, Mass., is the general contractor on the project, which was bid in March 2008 and saw its first earth moved in August. 2008. “We are reconstructing the bridge in three phases, in order to maintain the existing traffic flow,” said Joseph Gioioso, project manager of P. Gioioso & Sons. “Phase 1 will be complete in 2009 and the completion date for the entire project is August 2011.” Gioioso said the estimated cost of the entire project would be $8,732,000.
He added that the bridge, built almost 80 years ago, was no longer adequate to accommodate the estimated 33,000 cars and trucks which cross it daily, according to MassHighway officials. Much Needed Replacement “The existing bridge was built in the 1930s and was heavily deteriorated,” said Gioioso. “The bridge had a truck rating of approximately 20 tons, and it had very narrow travel lanes and sidewalks. The land widths are only 10 feet wide and these are very inadequate,” to support 2009 traffic patterns. Gioioso said that the new bridge will not only help the traffic flow from the city of Pawtucket into the Attleboro area and its several miles of stores, strip malls and malls along Newport Avenue (heavily traveled Route 1A), but part of the see BRIDGE page 10