Two historic Coventry bridges remain unrepaired and unusable while the commission tries to establish whether the state, Coventry or Cranston owns them. No money has been committed and no timeline exists.
Coventry’s Historic Preservation Commission spent much of its Aug. 6 meeting trying to answer a basic question about two historic bridges: who owns them.
According to the commission’s published meeting recording, members revived a bridge preservation study that had been dormant for roughly eight years, and quickly ran into the same wall that stalled it the first time. A commissioner who had worked the issue previously said he has tried to reach the state transportation department and has not gotten an answer…