Ruling: State Must Pay For Private Property Section Of Bike Path

(Providence, RI)--A Rhode Island Superior Court judge is ruling that the state built a section of bike path on private property and must compensate the owner.The ruling that was handed down on Monday involves a section of the Blackstone River Bikeway near Gano Street in the Fox Point part of Providence, according to a report from The Providence Journal.A construction company, H.V. Collins, sued the state Department of Transportation in 2016 after RIDOT began building the path.A spokesperson for the DOT tells the Journal the agency plans to appeal the ruling.


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