The US Small Business Administration has opened a recovery center in East Providence for businesses hurt by last week’s closure of the westbound lanes of I-195 on the Washington Bridge.
“This is the biggest story in Rhode Island since COVID. Nothing else has affected 90,000 people a day like this,” said one East Providence resident whose 15-minute Providence commute took nearly 2 hours Tuesday.
/PRNewswire/ First Student, the leading operator of electric school buses in North America, and Providence Public Schools, joined federal, state, and city.