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A look at streetcar rail placement
Photo from District (of Columbia) Department of Transportation Facebook page As we get serious around here about getting some streetcars running, we should start looking around at what other cities are doing. No...
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...
Metro Transit Study to be released Thursday
Photo (cc) Providence Public Library The ProJo has a very good comprehensive story on the Metro Transit Study which is to be officially released on Thursday. Really, it is a good story, the best, most balanced story on...
GC: Photos – Providence Public Library
The Providence Public Library has put many items from it’s collection on Flickr. Let’s play Then & Now with a few of them: Washington Street Mathewson Street at Washington Street, 1917. Photo (cc)...
GC: Photos – Pumpkin Launch Video
Video © Grayfamilia Flickr member Grayfamilia shared his video of the pumpkin launch at Dexter Training Ground in our Flickr Group. If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Flickr Group and submit...
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...
GC: Photos – Night
Some nighttime photos from our Flickr Group: Photo (cc) kd1s Photo (cc) hotnightcrasher Photo (cc) hotnightcrasher Photo (cc) hotnightcrasher If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Flickr Group and...
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...
GC: Photos
More great photos from our Flickr Group: Photo © little art-girl Photo © s clover Photo © closingatnever Photo © closingatnever If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Flickr Group...
GC: Photos
A collection of photos submitted to our Flickr Group: Photo © oh hello Photo © SecondEmpire Photo © The Three Bucketeers Photo © little art-girl Photo © e_pics If you’d like your photos...
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...
GC: Photos – Iron Pour
golden meanie shares some photos of last night’s Iron Pour in our Flickr Group: All photos © golden meanie More photos here. If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Flickr Group and submit...
GC: Photos – Watch your step
Photo © lianebyrnes There’s a bunch of photos in our Flickr Group to share with you, but I wanted to just quickly highlight this one. Shouldn’t there be some sort of barrier around that open manhole or...
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...
GC: Photos – Camera Obscura
Flickr member e_pics shares some camera obscura photos from the recent RISD by Design Weekend.
From 2008:
Photos © e_pics
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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...