Friday I took a walk down to Wickenden Street to take some photos of the murals under the overpass before RIDOT demolishes them. Slideshow below: Photos by Jef Nickerson Yesterday ProJo ran a story about Brent...
Some photos from under the soon to be torn down Wickenden Street overpass shared in our Flickr Group by Don Rogers: All photos © Don Rogers. If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Flickr Group and...
Photo by Jef Nickerson RIDOT announced today that the old Route 195 bridge over Wickenden Street will begin being dismantled Sunday (01/10) evening. RIDOT expects this work will take approximately one week to complete...
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?