Some photos of the remnants of the Wickenden Street overpass from this afternoon:
Category - 195 Relocation Project
GC: Photos – Under the Wickenden Street Overpass
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...
GC: Photos – Up on Route 195
A little birdie sent us some photos from up on the closed portions of Old Route 195.
And other little birdies with photos from up there are welcome to submit them.
Wickenden Street overpass demolition to begin this weekend
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...
Metro Transit Study
Today, RIPTA released their long awaited Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement Study, which looks to improve transit within the Rhode Island urban core centered on Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Warwick...
UPDATED City: Put the Waterfront to Work
The city has released their Waterfront Plan and accompanying website and blog. I haven’t had a chance to delve into it much, so I’m just putting this here for conversation, not my commentary (for now). The...
City Plan Commission Meeting (12/01)
PROVIDENCE CITY PLAN COMMISSION NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009 – 4:45 PM Department of Planning and Development, 4th Floor Auditorium 400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903 OPENING...
Breakfast on the Bridge, Sydney
Photo (cc) gilmae Last Sunday, the New South Wales government closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge, laid sod on it, and invited 6,000 people to come have a picnic breakfast. Breakfast on the Bridge was part of the...
Brown Daily Herald: “Town/Brown”
View Jewelry District sites in a larger map Key: Green = Brown-owned buildings, Red = Lots Brown is pursuing, Blue = Lots Johnson and Wales University is pursuing. The Brown Daily Herald has launched a five part series...
Brown University Alpert Medical School
Rendering from Brown University by Ellenzweig Associates The Corporation of Brown University met on Saturday and approved plans for the renovations of 222 Richmond Street in the Jewelry District turning the building...
Last part of 195/95 interchange to open next week
Image from RIDOT The final portion of Route 195 westbound traffic is scheduled to move to the new Iway alignment next week (Tuesday morning weather permitting). Traffic on 195 west heading to 95 north is the only...
Iway new traffic patterns 95 North
More Iway related lane shifts coming, this time on Route 95: A new lane configuration will start on September 27 and be in place for the morning commute on Monday, September 28. Motorists will find fixed and variable...
195 Street Grid Part 5: A look at lot sizes
In Part 4 much of the discussion revolved around lot sizes. Comment by Corey Call me naive, but personally, I would take some of the parcels not targeted for institutional use, subdivide them, and then sell the...
Reader: NYC Bike Lanes
9th Avenue Madison Square Park Madison Square Park A reader submitted these photos from New York City to show what is being done with bike lanes there and as an example of what we should be thinking about doing in the...
Could the schools help provide needed transit for Downtown?
In the comments section of the post about the Route 195 surplus land redevelopment report there is an interesting discussion (recommended reading) going on about dividing the parcels into smaller lots to create a more...
Temporary Architecture
Rendering from Envelope Architecture + Design As we start to look towards redeveloping 19 acres of land in the center of our city, during the worst economic downturn in a generation, it is apparent that we need to start...
195 Street Grid Part 4: Route 195 surplus land redevelopment report
Image from RIDOT The state and city released their report today on the redevelopment of the land which will be freed up by the removal of Route 195. Download draft: RI I-195 Relocation Surplus Land: Redevelopment and...
195 Street Grid Part 3: Wickenden Street update
In Part 1 of our 195 Street Grid posts, we looked at the Wickenden Street area and an alternate plan proposed by Ron Henderson of L+A Landscape Architecture. The design proposed by RIDOT was less than impressive, after...