Late-night drivers through the Providence-Cranston interchange face full or partial I-95 closures and three closed ramps across three October weekends, with RIDOT estimating 15 to 20 minutes of added detour time.
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has scheduled three weekends of overnight work at the I-95 and Route 10 interchange in Providence and Cranston, starting Friday, October 16. The first weekend brings a full closure of I-95 in both directions; the two weekends after it bring narrower closures, according to an advisory RIDOT issued Monday.
The work falls on the nights of October 16-17, October 23-24 and October 30-31 at Exit 33. RIDOT says crews will demolish bridge walls alongside both directions of Route 10, and that steel safety barriers are already in place to protect traffic once the walls come down…