RIDOT Planning Cuts To Ten-Year Plan

(Providence, RI)--The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is proposing cuts to its ten-year transportation plan.RIDOT has proposed trimming 28-million dollars from bike and pedestrian projects and 96-million off its highway-repaving budget over the next decade, according to a report from The Providence Journal.Transportation officials say the changes will allow the state to stay on track with the promise to have 90 percent of its highway bridges be structurally sufficient by 2025.A delay in toll collections from trucks is being cited as a specific reason for the cuts to the paving program.


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