PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A change in the traffic pattern on Interstate 95 through Providence is being put off until Sunday.
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation says it’s postponing the lane change on I-95 South near the Providence Place mall because of rain forecast for Friday.
The work is now scheduled to happen from 10 p.m. Saturday until 6 a.m. Sunday. Some lanes of Interstate 95 and Route 146 will be closed for restriping.
The new configuration will move one of the three lanes of the highway to a new bridge.
The change was put into effect Tuesday but caused a massive traffic jam that stretched to the Massachusetts border.
Transportation officials went back to the old traffic pattern for the rest of the week.
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