Barrington road work is killing car tires
A road repaving job on Middle Highway and Washington Road in Barrington has been partly to blame for a series of blown out car tires.
According to officials at the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, a Coventry-based construction …
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Barrington road work is killing car tires
A road repaving job on Middle Highway and Washington Road in Barrington has been partly to blame for a series of blown out car tires.
According to officials at the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, a Coventry-based construction company is repaving portions of Middle Highway and Washington Road. The company, T. Miozzi, first removed a thick layer of asphalt from both roads in preparation for the new surface.
But before crews made it back to Barrington to finish the job, a number of motorists struck the then-raised manhole covers and blew out their car tires.
In last week's police report, three residents stopped by the station to file complaints. One resident's report states that she was driving down Washington Road on Friday, Oct. 9, when struck two raised structures at the same time and blew out both her car's front tires.
A DOT spokesman said the contractor had been scheduled to repave the roads on Wednesday, May 7, but a check of the area showed that crews were nowhere in sight.
