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Route 138 is a numbered State Highway running 45.2 miles in Rhode Island . ROUTE DESCRIPTION Route 138 takes the following route through the State:
HISTORY Route 138 used the Stone Bridge over the Sakonnet River until 1954 . Before the opening of the Jamestown section of the Route 138 Expressway in 1994 , Route 138 came off the Jamestown Bridge and used Eldred Street (which has now been partially cut off by the Expressway) and East Shore Road to the Newport Pell Bridge . As of 2005 , there is still an Route 138 Reassurance Marker northbound on East Shore Road just north of the Newport Pell Bridge . Prior to the construction of the Route 138 Expressway in North Kingstown , Route 138 used Bridgetown Road east of U.S. Route 1 in South Kingstown , then north on Route 1A into North Kingstown , then along an access road to the Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge which was upgraded on the spot to the Route 138 Expressway. There are two abandoned temporary ramps at the west end of the Jamestown Bridge used by through traffic in the early 1990s . These ramps connected through traffic to the old bridge while the new one was being built. The new Jamestown Bridge opened in 1992 . The Route 138 Expressway was intended to extend west to Interstate 95 . For more information, see Interstate 895 (Rhode Island/Massachusetts) . Route 138 officially goes from being signed East/West to being signed North/South at the intersection of Admiral Kalbfus Road and West Main Road on the Middletown / Newport line. MISCELLANEA Route 138 is the only trans- Rhode Island route in the State highway system. REFERENCES |
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