Looks to have depended on how it’s measured, anyway. Built in 1932, Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge is 1600 feet wide, carries two railway tracks, eight lanes of roadway, cycle track, and a footway.
Myself, I nearly thought some tiny little county had split off and gotten accepted to the US as ‘Central Dakota’ 
Obligatory repetition of my favorite dialog quote:
“You’d better think about who your friends are. Because it’s a long drive to Providence.”
“This is Rhode Island!! It’s not a long drive anywhere!!”
Lute Skywatcher, as an expat I would love to recognize that fact about the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but someone’ calculator is not working. 48.8 metres is closer to 160 feet.
I was gonna say…I’ve seen the Sydney Harbor bridge and it is an impressive structure, but 1600 feet wide? No way.
From what I can gather the Crawford St. Bridge consisted of continuous decking over the river or canal or whatever the heck it is. My hazy memories of the area from way back when (I only get to Providence once or twice a year, and usually don’t sightsee) seem to be of a lot of empty lots and parking lots in that area in years past. Am I correct?
Are you serious??? I knew it was small, but jeez! You can’t get across my city in an hour, at 3:00 in the morning!
:: jealous ::
(Hey, though, it snows up there, right? Like a lot of snow, right?)
Uuh? Link?
Seriously, you can’t go posting references to hot Attorneys General without providing a pic.
:mad:
I assume most of the drive across Rhode Island would be on a highway or interstate with high speed limits and relatively low traffic. In places like Houston or New York, I can see the drive from one block to the next taking an hour or two though. I still remember being ***shocked ***when I was younger and my dad told me that he had to get up three hours before his shift started in Houston just to get to his job on time at some place only a few miles away.
I could not live in such a large city.
Great, now you’ve planted the notion of invading CT. Where will the madness end?
Browsing through old newspapers, I notice that Middletown had a DQ throughout the 1950’s.
What did you do to drive them away? 
Rhode Island is a state?
Ha!
It’s the biggest little state in the union…
We are also, I think, the only state to give some sort of official staus to Stan Lee. The Attorney general attached a plaque to his office, with great fanfare and publicity, with the quote “With great power comes great responsibility” from Spider Man.
Not that I hold any opinion as to whether he’s hot, but here’s a photo and some info on Patrick Lynch.
The Rhode Island State Capitol is one of the 4 self-supporting marble domes in the world. Says so right here. All 4 of them are very impressive, but the painting in the dome of the basilica is definitely the best.
Just in case that option needs to be considered, how big is the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation’s national guard?
Any tanks?
Any chance of a mod fixing this thread title? The apostrophe bugs me every time I see it in New Posts.
No offence Euty.
Rhode Island may still (correct me if I’m wrong) may have the dubbious distinction of being the most densely populated state. though New Jersey (where I live) may have surpassed it.
Let’s not forget RI is home to world’s largest termite. 
We shall repel any invasion from Rogue Island with our crack infantry, The Governor’s Foot Guard.
