That change order also authorized the contractor to perform "special maintenance" that has turned out to be repair work on the active eastbound bridge.

RIDOT is paying nearly $700,000 for the month-long pause of the Washington Bridge demolition work earlier this year, according to documents obtained by NBC 10.

Target 12 Investigator Tim White shares the latest updates on the cost of the bridge, which was shut down nearly one year ago.

But as residents, officials and businesspeople on both sides of the bridge point out, one reason traffic conditions have improved is that people have changed their travel habits. And as with change in the flow of people, there are winners or losers to the new normal.

Demolition of the bridge halted after the state's legal team wanted to preserve potential evidence tied to an ongoing lawsuit.