Editing Pawtucket, Rhode Island (section)

==Infrastructure==
===Transportation===
Pawtucket is served by several [[Rhode Island Public Transit Authority|RIPTA]] local bus routes plus the [[R-Line (RIPTA)|R-Line]]. [[Pawtucket/Central Falls station]] on the [[MBTA Commuter Rail]] [[Providence/Stoughton Line]] opened on January 23, 2023,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/media/route_pdfs/2023-01-23-cr-providence-stoughton-fall-winter-schedule.pdf |title=Providence/Stoughton Line Fall/Winter Schedule Effective January 23, 2023 |access-date=December 21, 2022}}</ref> replacing the former station that closed in 1981.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.valleybreeze.com/townnews/transports/opening-in-january-new-pawtucket-cf-train-station-set-in-motion-two-decades-ago/article_0e924f6e-7a56-11ed-b72c-cb816e8618ac.html |title=Opening in January, new Pawtucket/CF train station set in motion two decades ago |newspaper=The Valley Breeze |date=December 14, 2023 |first=Ethan |last=Shorey |access-date=December 14, 2022}}</ref>

===Highways and roads===
[[Interstate 95 in Rhode Island|Interstate 95]] and [[U.S. Route 1 in Rhode Island|U.S. 1]] also traverse the western part of Pawtucket. Some of the slowest posted speeds on I-95 are in the city due to the "S-curves" near downtown. To preserve certain buildings in the city, planners snaked I-95, creating sharp bends in the highway.

===Downtown Circulator===
[[File:Pawtucket Circulator map.png|thumb|upright|The former Downtown Circulator]]

Pawtucket's Downtown Circulator was a one-way loop through downtown; it is similar to British concepts of [[ring road]]s. A similar concept was also tried in Providence.

The circulator used East Avenue, High Street, Summer Street, Goff Avenue, Dexter Street and Park Place West. Each half of the Circulator carried one direction of U.S. 1; sections also carried westbound [[RI 15]] and northbound [[RI 114]]. It was signed with a big "C" on overhead signs.

There are no longer signs for the circulator, though the road configuration remains. Providence's Downtown Ring Roads have suffered a similar fate.