Mural on Wickenden Street overpass. Photo by Jef Nickerson. RIDOT announces ceremony to start the destruction of the old Route 195. Governor and RIDOT to Begin Major Demolition of Old I-195 Governor Donald L. Carcieri...
Something I did not touch on in my last post on the Wickeneden alternatives was the bike lanes. The image above shows Point Street coming in from the left continuing across to Wickenden Street. South Water Street...
Monday, February 1, RIDOT and the City Department of Planning & Development will be hosting a follow-up meeting on the design of the post Route 195 relocation street grid. This meeting is a follow-up on feedback...
Jef Nickerson
Greater City Providence
It kind of cracks me up (no pun intended) that the demo is neater and more orderly than some of Providence’s roads currently in use!
Part of the reason for the delay is that it is taking longer than expected to sort the debris for recycling. Can you imagine? Recycling? That’s crazy talk!
All too often ‘recycling’ in Rhode Island means ‘grinding it up and selling it to the landfill’ so they can pack the day’s trash in with some inert material. I’m sure the steel and granite have a more hopeful fate, though.
Sorry to be such a negative-nelly this week. It’s been cold out, and I have a dog. 🙂
The granite blocks that finish the retaining walls would be costly to reproduce and have a real value today if they were recycled/reused. I asked about them several months ago, but no one knew anything. Is the state selling the granite or dumping it?