However, funding was insufficient to replace the swing span, so its length was merely increased to 284 feet (87 m).

[3] The bridge is no longer moveable but fixed in place to allow Point Street traffic to cross.

[4] The Fox Point Hurricane Barrier, downstream of the Point Street Bridge and completed in 1966, rendered the swing feature of little value, because the Barrier blocks large vessels from traveling upstream before the bridge would.

The Point Street Bridge was part of that route, and on exceptionally hot summer days, the bridge would expand after it opened, and with nowhere to bleed off the heat, it expanded to a point where it couldn't be closed.

[5] A previous Point Street Bridge from the Providence Public Library's Digital Collections Article containing a photograph of the previous Point Street Bridge from the Providence Journal