VIDEO: RIDOT demolishes, installs East Shore Expy. Bridge in just 80 hours (Time-lapse)

VIDEO: RIDOT demolishes, installs East Shore Expy. Bridge in just 80 hours (Time-lapse)

Over the span of just 80 hours, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation carried out a rapid bridge replacement of the East Shore Expressway Bridge in East Providence. Between September 9 and 13 the department demolished the old bridge—classified as functionally obsolete with significant concrete cracking—and installed a new span which was built in temporary staging areas on supports next to the old bridge.