Interstate 195 (Rhode Island–Massachusetts)

I-195 begins at I-95 at a semi-directional T interchange, which along with a new bridge over the Providence River, was part of the large Iway construction project. At this point US Route 6 (US 6) is also signed along I-195. The complex Iway interchange includes several ramps for local streets (labeled exit 1A and 1B) and an interchange with I-95, which is unnumbered. US 44 and US 1A join at the next interchange with Gano Street and Main Street, labeled exits 1C, 1D, and 1E. The road crosses the Washington Bridge over the Seekonk River into East Providence. US 44 leaves the freeway at Exit 1C in East Providence. Exit 1D is a partial interchange with Route 103 while Exit 2A provides access to several local streets in East Providence. Exits 2B-C provide access to Route 114, which is also where US 6 and US 1A leave the freeway. I-195 then leaves Rhode Island, having gone 4.30 miles (6.92 km).

I-195 enters Seekonk, Massachusetts and interchanges with Route 114A at exit 1. There are two interchanges in Swansea, exit 2 for Massachusetts Route 136 and exit 3 for US 6. Access to the town of Somerset and the village of Ocean Grove in Swansea is via Exit 4 (Route 103). I-95 crosses the Braga Bridge over the Taunton River, entering Fall Fiver. The bridge passes over Battleship Cove and the USS Massachusetts, after which exit 5 provides access to Route 79 and Route 138. Exits 6-7 provide access to downtown Fall River streets, while a brief concurrency with Route 24 exists between exit 8A (24 South) and 8B (24 North). Passing the Watuppa Ponds, I-195 enters Westport, where exit 9 is a partial interchange with Sanford Road, and exit 10 marks the northern terminus of Route 88. Exits 11 and 12 provide access to local roads in Dartmouth, while shortly after entering the port city of New Bedford there's a full cloverleaf interchange with the Route 140 freeway (exits 13A-B). Exits 14-18 are partial interchanges with several local New Bedford city streets. A bridge over the Acushnet River takes I-195 to the town of Fairhaven, where there is the northern terminus of Route 240 freeway at exit 18. Exit 19 is for North Street in Mattapoisett, exit 20 is Route 105 in Marion, and exit 21 is Route 28 in Wareham. I-195 ends at trumpet interchange with I-495 (exit 22B) and Route 25 (exit 22A) in Wareham, having 39.93 miles (64.26 km) in Massachusetts.

I-195 in Fall River, photo from 1968

MA-79 split (prior to reconstruction of MA-79 interchange) at I-195 near the Braga Bridge

Predating I-195 were two sections of road—Fox Point Boulevard and the Washington Bridge. The Washington Bridge, crossing the Seekonk River between Providence and East Providence, was opened on September 25, 1930, replacing an 1885 swing bridge with a higher bascule bridge. A new eastbound bridge opened in November 1968.[3]

Fox Point Boulevard, later George M. Cohan Boulevard, was a surface boulevard connecting the Washington Bridge west to the Point Street Bridge and downtown Providence. It was built with no cross traffic by using U-turn ramps in the median to reverse direction. This was the last part in Providence to be built as a freeway, opened in December 1968.

The first freeway section came off the west end of Cohan Boulevard and over the Providence River, ending at the one-way pair of Pine Street and Friendship Street, which opened in November 1958. The ramp to Pine Street has been closed, but the entrance from Friendship Street still exists. The I-95 interchange at this end opened in fall 1964; the Pine Street ramp was kept for a while.

The next section to be constructed was the part in East Providence. It opened to the last exit before the state line on December 15, 1959, and was extended into Massachusetts by August 1960.

Interstate 195 cut through the center of Watchemoket Square, which about thirty years earlier been the heart of downtown East Providence, but was on the decline in the 1950s.[4] Half of the square was demolished to make way for the highway.[4]

Before the Interstate Highway System numbering was decided upon, I-195 was planned as a relocation of US 6; in fact, all but the last section was signed as US 6 when built (the first section only eastbound though). In 1957, the number Interstate 95E was assigned, as all intercity routes were numbered before the three-digit Interstate numbering was chosen, and the Providence-New Bedford route was too long to be considered intracity. The I-195 designation was assigned in 1959 with the final numbering. At some time after 1976, the definition of I-195 was extended east to I-495 (which was itself extended).

I-195 still carries US 6, now in both directions, from I-95 to the last interchange before Massachusetts. It also carries US 1A and US 44 over the Washington Bridge and its approaches, though the former has almost no signs.

The Providence River Bridge carried traffic across the Providence River, to its western terminus with Interstate 95. It was demolished in 2010-2011 due to realignment of Interstate 195. The Providence Pedestrian Bridge opened in its place in 2019.

Massachusetts interchanges were to be renumbered to mileage-based numbering in a project scheduled to begin in 2016, until the project was indefinitely postponed by MassDOT. On November 18, 2019, MassDOT announced the project would begin in late summer 2020.[8][9] Rhode Island interchanges will also be renumbered to a mileage-based system by 2020 in a plan announced by RIDOT in September 2017[10][11] and scheduled to begin on January 28, 2020.[12][13]

State	County	Location[2]	mi[1][2]	km	Old exit	New exit[14][15]	Destinations[14]	Notes
Rhode Island	Providence	Providence	0.00	0.00		–	I-95 north / US 6 west – Boston, MA	Western terminus of US 6 concurrency; exit 36A on I-95
			0.40	0.64		1A	Point Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
			0.80	1.29		–	I-95 south – New York	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; exit 36C on I-95
						1B	Eddy Street	Westbound exit only; serves Rhode Island Hospital
		Providence River	0.80– 1.00	1.29– 1.61	Providence River Bridge (Iway)
		Providence	1.10	1.77	2	1A	Gano Street / India Street	Eastbound exit only
			1.30	2.09	2	1C	US 44 west (South Main Street / US 1A south)	Western terminus of US 1A-44 concurrency; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
			1.50	2.41	3	1D	Gano Street – India Point	Westbound exit and entrance; exit proposed to be replace by exit 1E[16]
		Seekonk River	1.60– 1.80	2.57– 2.90	Washington Bridge
		East Providence	1.80	2.90		1E	Waterfront Avenue	Proposed replacement for westbound exit 1D[16]
					4	1B-C	US 44 east (Taunton Avenue) – Riverside	Eastern terminus of US 44 concurrency; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			1.90	3.06	5	1D	Route 103 east (Warren Avenue)	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; western terminus of Route 103
			2.40– 3.10	3.86– 4.99	6	2A	Warren Avenue / Broadway / Pawtucket Avenue – East Providence	Signed southbound for US 44 and Route 103
			3.30	5.31	7	2B	Route 114 south – Barrington	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			3.50	5.63	8	2C	US 6 east / US 1A north to Route 114 north (Pawtucket Avenue) – Seekonk, MA	Eastern terminus of US 6-1A concurrency; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			4.30 0.000	6.92 0.000	Rhode Island–Massachusetts state line
Massachusetts	Bristol	Seekonk	0.581	0.935		1	Route 114A – Seekonk, Barrington, RI
		Swansea	4.621	7.437	2	5	Route 136 south – Warren, RI, Newport, RI	Northern terminus of Route 136
			7.470	12.022	3	8	US 6 to Route 118 – Swansea
		Somerset	9.849	15.850	4	10	Route 103 / Lee's River Avenue – Somerset, Ocean Grove	Signed as exits 4A (west) and 4B (east) westbound[14]
		Taunton River			Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge
		Fall River	11.984	19.286	5	11	Route 79 / Route 138 – Taunton, North Tiverton, RI
			12.439	20.019	6	12	Pleasant Street (westbound) / Hartwell Street (eastbound) – Downtown Fall River	Shared ramp with exit 6[14]
			12.711	20.456	7	13	Route 81 south (Plymouth Avenue)	Northern terminus of Route 81
			13.769	22.159	8A	14A	Route 24 south – Tiverton, RI, Newport, RI	Western terminus of Route 24 concurrency
			14.609	23.511	8B	14B	Route 24 north – Taunton, Boston	Eastern terminus of Route 24 concurrency
		Westport	15.354	24.710	9	15	Sanford Road – North Westport	Eastbound exit only[14]
			16.343	26.302	10	16	Route 88 south to US 6 – Horseneck Beach	Northern terminus of Route 88
		Dartmouth	19.433	31.274	11	19	Reed Road – Hixville, Dartmouth	Signed as exits 11A (south) and 11B (north) westbound[14]
			21.979	35.372	12	22	Faunce Corner Road / Faunce Corner Mall Road – North Dartmouth	Signed as exits 12A (south) and 12B (north) westbound[14]
		New Bedford	23.773	38.259	13	24	Route 140 to US 6 – New Bedford, Dartmouth, Taunton	Signed as exits 13A (south) and 13B (north);[14] exits 2A-B on Route 140
			24.627	39.633	14	25	Penniman Street	Eastbound exit[14] and westbound entrance
			25.087	40.374	15	26	Route 18 – Downtown New Bedford	Southbound exit (Route 18 south) and northbound entrance (Route 18 north)
			25.367	40.824	16	27	Washburn Street	Eastbound exit[14] and entrance
			25.632	41.251	17	28	Coggeshall Street	Westbound exit[14] and entrance
		Fairhaven	27.251	43.856	18	29	Route 240 south – Fairhaven	Northern terminus of Route 240
	Plymouth	Mattapoisett	30.916	49.754	19	31	North Street – Mattapoisett, North Rochester	Access via North Street; signed as exits 19A (south) and 19B (north)[14]
		Marion	35.133	56.541	20	35	Route 105 – Marion, Rochester
		Wareham	39.233	63.139	21	39	Route 28 – Wareham, South Middleboro
			39.911	64.231	22A	40A	Route 25 east – Cape Cod	Western terminus of Route 25
			39.93	64.26	22B	40B	I‑495 north – Marlboro	Southern terminus of I-495
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access       Unopened

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