Route 4

Reassurance marker for Route 4 posted ahead of Scrabbletown Brook and beyond the on-ramp from Route 2 and 102.

07/28/07

Route 2 (Quaker Lane) parallels R.I. 4 northbound and crosses paths with the freeway again at a parclo interchange (Exit 6) in one mile.

07/28/07

Entering Kent County, northbound motorists approach the South Road overpass. Forthcoming Exit 6 serves the Town of East Greenwich via Route 2 at Briggs Corner.

07/28/07

Exit 6 departs Route 4 north for Route 2 (South County Trail). The Route 4 freeway originally began from R.I. 2 via a wye interchange.

07/28/07

Exit 7 was originally a southbound only exit for Route 4 south to Davisville Road (old Route 403) and Route 402 (Frenchtown Road) east and west. Construction underway in 2007 wrapped up December 2008 on a new alignment for Route 403, the Quonset Freeway, with a trumpet interchange providing full access with R.I. 4.

07/28/07

A view of construction for the new R.I. 403 freeway. Exit 7 now branches away from Route 4 northbound to pass underneath R.I. 402 and join the Quonset Freeway southeast. Route 403 spurs southeast as a limited access highway to Davisville and Quonset Davisville Business Park (former Quonset Point Naval Air Station).

07/28/07

Continuing north, Route 4 next meets Route 401 (Division Street) at the East Greenwich and West Warwick Town line.

07/28/07

Reassurance marker posted between Route 403 and the Middle Road overpass. The original Route 4 freeway fully opened between Exit 6 and Interstate 95 in 1988.¹

07/28/07

Exit 8 consists of ramps to Route 401 (Division Street) east to U.S. 1 and Warwick and west to adjacent Route 2 (South County Trail) and West Greenwich.

07/28/07

A seemingly temporary style sign displays the formal name of Route 401 (Division Street) for Exits 8A/B. R.I. 401 travels just 2.2 miles overall between Route 2 and U.S. 1 (Main Street) in East Greenwich. The Rhode Island Official 2011 Highway Map however indicates the state route continuing west along Division Road to junction R.I. 3 in the Town of West Greenwich.

07/28/07

A parclo interchange joins Route 4 with Division Street in one quarter mile.

07/28/07

Motorists not taking ramps to Route 401 (Exits 8A/B) default onto Interstate 95 north at a wye interchange.

07/28/07

Access to Interstate 95 south from Route 4 north requires drivers to take Route 401 (Division Street) west to Route 2 (Quaker Lane) north to its interchange with Interstate 95 south.

07/28/07

Merging with Interstate 95 northbound from the conclusion of Route 4 north. I-95 crosses the Maskerchugg River to Apponaug within the Town of Warwick.

07/28/07

Immediately after beginning, Route 4 south passes under the northbound lanes of I-95 just ahead of the parclo interchange (Exit 8)?with Route 401 (Division Street). The left side ramp to Route 4 from I-95 south might capture a few motorists unwillingly, so an I-95 trailblazer directs errant drivers onto Division Street west to Route 2 (Quaker Lane) north back to I-95.

04/21/11

Exit 8 loops away from Route 4 south to Route 401 at the East Greenwich town line. Route 401 travels west to parallel Route 2 (South County Trail) and east to U.S. 1 near Warwick.

04/21/11