Long-awaited bike bridges will use modular system

Jacquelyn Voghel

10/28/2022

TEMPORARY FIX: Kathleen Gannon, left, board chair of the Rhode Island Bike Coalition, rides across a temporary, boardwalk-style bridge as part of a detour along the East Bay Bike Path going over the Barrington River in Barrington with coalition members Judy Menton, center, and Chris Menton. The old bridge seen in the background is one of two along the bike path that will be replaced following an allocation of federal money for transportation infrastructure improvements awarded to the state in August. PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

After nearly three years of uncertainty, frustration and sometimes outright pessimism for East Bay Bike Path users and alternative transportation advocates, the tentative replacement of the trail’s two dilapidated river bridges in Barrington received a long-awaited commitment in September. In a gathering at Police Cove Park in Barrington on Sept. 26, state and local officials

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