The Mayor is launching a design competition for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge on Friday afternoon. The RFP RFQ will reportedly be up on the Planning Department’s website by Friday. I will be at the press...
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Jef NickersonStreetcar study Public Meetings
RIPTA and the City of Providence will be holding public meetings this month on their “Circulator” Providence Core Connector Study project, you may know the Providence Core Connector better as the streetcar...
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Greater City ProvidenceREBOOT: Olneyville Square
Click image to enlarge [box style=”red”]REBOOT is an occasional series of posts on GC:PVD where we identify areas of the city that display poor urbanism and propose ways to improve them. Our interventions...
GC: Photos
More photos submitted to our Flickr Group by our readers. Photo © BlueisCoool Photo (cc) provbenson2009 Photo (cc) provbenson2009 Photo © BlueisCoool If you’d like your photos featured here, join our...
GC: Photos
More photos submitted to our Flickr Group by our readers. Photo © TheWoolverine Photo © TheWoolverine Photo © BlueisCoool Photo (cc) provbenson2009 Photo (cc) provbenson2009 If you’d like your...
GC: Photos – Hot town, summer in the city
In this GC: Photos post I’m sharing my photos, because I’m a little megalomaniacal, don’t you know? By the next GC: Photos update I will be over my megalomaniacalness and be ready to post some reader...
GC: Photos
Photo © e_pics This guerilla bus stop sits outside the Map Center on North Main. The Map Center blogged about it back in April. No one seems to know where it came from and no one seems to be in any hurry to remove...
RIPTA gets $700k in federal funds for new bus hubs
The Federal Transportation Administration announced who is receiving $290 million in TIGER funds for “Urban Circulator/Bus and Bus Livability Projects.” Rhode Island is among the recipients with $700,000...
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GC: Photos
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GC: Photos – Yum
Flickr member kristin82175 shares her lunch at Venda in our Flickr Group: Photo © kristin82175 Photo © kristin82175 Photo © kristin82175 If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Flickr...
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Transportation Secretary LaHood visits Providence
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Providence today to learn more about the Metro Transit Study. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the forum held during his visit (anyone who did, please feel free to...
195 Wickenden Street exit to close temporarily this weekend
RIDOT will be closing Exit 2 (South Main Street) off of Route 195 westbound this weekend. The closure will allow RIDOT to reconfigure the ramp and prepare for further demolition of the old Route 195. RIDOT: On Friday...
GC: Photos – Bike-to-Work Day
Psionara shared some photos of last week’s Bike-to-Work Day in our Flickr Group:
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GC: Photos – What Cheer?
mthphotos shared some photos of the What Cheer? Brigade 5th Anniversary Celebration in our Flickr Group:
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Can I get there from here?
The ProJo recently covered the story of retailers feeling cut off by the reconfiguration of Route 195. On the old alignment of Route 195, Exit 2 went to Wickenden Street and the big green sign on the overpass said as...
