Route 146, also known as the
Louisquisset Pike, the
Eddie Dowling Highway, and the
North Smithfield Expressway, is a long numbered
state highway located in
Providence County,
Rhode Island,
United States. The route is a major north–south
freeway in the northern
Providence metropolitan area, directly linking
Providence with the cities of
Woonsocket, Rhode Island and
Worcester, Massachusetts. For most of its length, Route 146 is a
limited-access freeway, although there is one traffic signal in the
North Smithfield business district. The southern terminus of the freeway is at
Interstate 95 in downtown Providence, and the route's northern terminus is at the Rhode Island-Massachusetts state line in
Millville, where it continues northward towards the
Massachusetts Turnpike and the city of Worcester as
Massachusetts Route 146.