Route 114 is a numbered State Highway running 45.6 miles in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
- Note: This section uses [] () to indicate a one-way pair. Streets appearing in [] are the northbound or eastbound side. Streets appearing in () are the southbound or westbound side. The reading order inside the brackets and parentheses is the same as outside.
Route 114 takes the following route through the State:
- Middletown: 3.4 miles; Newport city line to Portsmouth town line
- Portsmouth: 6.4 miles; Middletown town line to Bristol town line
- Bristol: 5.2 miles; Portsmouth town line to Warren town line
- Warren: 2.1 miles; Bristol town line to Barrington town line
- South Main Street and North Main Street
- Barrington: 4.8 miles; Warren town line to East Providence city line
- County Road and Wampanoag Trail
- East Providence: 7.3 miles; Barrington town line to Pawtucket city line
- Wampanoag Trail and Pawtucket Avenue
- Pawtucket: 2.4 miles; East Providence city line to Central Falls city line
- Prospect Street, [Prospect Street, School Street, Main Street, Walcott Street] (Beverage Hill Avenue, Division Street, Summit Street), Walcott Street, Underwood Street, [Cottage Street, Exchange Street, Broadway, Walcott Street, Main Street, High Street, Summer Street] (Cottage Street, Broadway, Exchange Street) and Broad Street [1]
- Central Falls: 1.1 miles; Pawtucket city line to Cumberland town line
- Cumberland: 9.3 miles; Central Falls city line to Woonsocket city line
- Broad Avenue, Blackstone Street, High Street, Diamond Hill Road and Pine Swamp Road [2]
- Woonsocket: 3.6 miles; Cumberland town line to Route 122
- Diamond Hill Road, Rathbun Street, Privilege Street and Winter Street [3]
[edit] History
Route 114 was a major north-south artery for its entire length until the arrival of the Interstate Highway System. It is still a major commercial corridor on Aquidneck Island and in northern Rhode Island (mainly Central Falls, Cumberland and Woonsocket).
Until the 1960s, Route 114 ended at the intersection of Pine Swamp Road and Diamond Hill Road in Cumberland. Present-day Route 114 from that point west to Route 122 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island was given the Route 142 and later the Route 11 designation. When Route 11 became Route 121 in the 1960s, Route 121's terminus was cut back to the same intersection where Route 114 originally ended, and the route west to Woonsocket became Route 114.
In 2000, part of Route 114 northbound south of downtown Pawtucket was re-routed. The old alignment left Prospect Street at Pond Street, went east along Pond Street to Summit Street, north on Summit Street (this turn onto Summit is still signed as of July 2005) and re-joined Route 114 southbound at the corner of Summit Street and Division Street.
- ↑ In Pawtucket, Route 114 has a wrong-way multiplex with itself on a one-way road - a block of Broadway (pointing compass south) between Exchange Street and Cottage Street. This means that both the northbound and southbound directions of Route 114 travel the same direction on the same road. At the intersection with Cottage Street, the northbound direction stays straight on Broadway while the southbound direction makes a left turn onto Cottage Street. Though the routing seems odd by conventional thinking, it is well-defined in the 2001 edition of the Pavement Log kept by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. As of July 2005 the signage in the vicinity is very spotty and offers no evidence to dispute the pavement log and, in some cases, the little signage that does exist actually seems to support it. On the other hand, Pawtucket's Department of Public Works has Route 114 northbound using Exchange Street, which is shorter and matches the southbound direction. (Pawtucket's log also shows the old northbound alignment - see above.) With the northbound change to Exchange, the entry above would read as follows:
- Prospect Street, [Prospect Street, School Street, Main Street, Walcott Street] (Beverage Hill Avenue, School Street, Division Street, Summit Street), Walcott Street, Underwood Street, [Cottage Street, Exchange Street] (Cottage Street, Broadway), Exchange Street and Broad Street
- ↑ In the 1990s or early 2000s, Route 114 was re-aligned in Cumberland, Rhode Island so that it now uses Blackstone Street to get between Broad Avenue and High Street. Before the re-alignment, Route 114 used to use Dexter Street (Route 123) for that purpose. Signage still exists as of July 2005 at the intersection of Dexter and High streets as evidence of this old alignment. However, a reassurance marker was installed northbound on the old alignment just past Route 123 in 2005. Drivers in either direction on Route 114 will go as shown above, but the old alignment is still having signs installed:
- Broad Avenue, Dexter Street, High Street, Diamond Hill Road and Pine Swamp Road
- ↑ For many years, Route 114 used Social Street (Route 126) in Woonsocket to get between Diamond Hill Road and Privilege Street. New signage installed in 2003 by RIDOT now takes Route 114 one block further west so that it now uses Rathbun Street to make that jog rather than Social Street. However, no sign was installed on Route 114 southbound to turn left at Rathbun, and the old sign at Social (Route 126) has not been removed. Thus southbound traffic is still directed to turn left onto Social without a traffic signal, and the new sign for southbound traffic pointing right onto Diamond Hill from Social is not seen by Route 114 traffic. Through traffic on Route 114 will thus go as follows:
- Diamond Hill Road, [Diamond Hill Road, Rathbun Street] (Social Street, Privilege Street), Privilege Street and Winter Street
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