Rhode Island State Route 138

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Road sign
Basic data
Overall length:  45.2 mi / 72.7 km
Opening:  1922
Starting point:  Connecticut Highway 138.svg CT 138 in Voluntown
End point:  MA Route 138.svg MA 138 in Fall River
Counties:  Washington County
Newport County
course
Course of the expressway
AB-AS-green.svg North Kingstown US 1US 1.svg
AB-AS-green.svg North Kingstown RI 1ARhode Island 1A.svg
bridge Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge
AB-AS-green.svg Helm Street / Beacon Avenue
AB-AS-green.svg Conanicus Avenue / East Shore Road
bridge Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge
AB-AS-green.svg JT Connell Road
AB-AS-green.svg Admiral Kalbfus Road

The Rhode Island State Route 138 (short RI 138 ) is a state route in the state of Rhode Island . It runs from the Connecticut border to the Massachusetts border and is the only state highway that crosses the entire state.

Route description

The RI 138 takes the following route through the state:

  • Exeter : 0.8 km; Border with Connecticut at Route 138 in the city limits of Hopkinton
    • Spring Street
  • Hopkinton: 8.4 km; City limits of Exeter and city limits of Richmond
    • Spring Street, Nooseneck Hill Road and Main Street
  • Richmond: 9.7 km; Hopkinton city limits and South Kingstown city limits
    • Main Street and Kingstown Road
  • South Kingstown: 14.3 km; Richmond boundaries and North Kingstown boundaries
    • Usquepaugh Road, Kingstown Road, Moorsefield Road, and Tower Hill Road
  • North Kingstown: 5 miles; South Kingstown boundary and Jamestown boundary
    • Tower Hill Road and Route 138 Expressway
  • Jamestown: 5.1 km; North Kingstown city limits and Newport city ​​limits
    • Route 138 Expressway
  • Newport: 1.6 miles; Jamestown city limits and Middletown city limits
    • Route 138 Expressway and Admiral Kalbfus Road
  • Middletown: 5.1 km; Newport City and Portsmouth City limits
    • West Main Road and East Main Road
  • Portsmouth: 13.7 km; Middletown boundaries and Tiverton boundaries
    • East Main Road and Fall River Expressway
  • Tiverton: 5 km; Portsmouth and Massachusetts border at Massachusetts State Route 138
    • Fall River Expressway and Main Road
RI 138 in Newport County

history

Rhode Island State Route 138 used the Stone Bridge over the Sakonnet River until 1954.

Before the opening of a section at Jamestown in 1994 as an expressway, the State Route ran from the Jamestown Bridge over Eldred Street , which is now partially cut off from the Expressway, and East Shore Road to Newport Bridge . In 2005 there was a sign pointing to RI 138 north of East Shore Road and north of Newport Bridge.

Before the new expressway was built in North Kingstown, it ran along Bridgetown Road east of US Highway 1 in South Kingstown, then north on State Route 1A to North Kingstown and finally along the feeder road to the Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge , which was being expanded for the expressway has been.

There are two abandoned former access ramps at the west end of Jamestown Bridge that were only used by traffic in the early 1990s. These ramps connected the street with the old bridge, as the new bridge was still under construction at the time. The new Jamestown Bridge opened in 1992.

It was planned to extend the expressway west to Interstate 95 .

Rhode Island State Route 138 officially runs in an east-west direction to the junction of Admiral Kalbfus Road with West Main Road Route 138 on the Middletown-Newport border, then in a north-south direction.

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