During the site rebuild I removed the Flickr sideshow in the sidebar. I’ve got to get that back up because we’ve been getting some great submissions to our pool. Here’s a few: Photo © pvdEric from...
Category - Features
Jef NickersonGC: Photos – Market House
Photo © SecondEmpire from Flickr Flickr member SecondEmpire submitted some photos to our Flickr Group including the one above of RISD’s Market House. If you’d like your photos featured here, join our...
Tempting fate?
Route 195 overpass at Wickenden Street, by Jef Nickerson Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought one of the major reasons we’re building the Iway is that the current Route 195 is ready to fall down on top of...
REBOOT: Blackstone Boulevard?
View Larger Map In response to Matt’s post about Livable Streets and the livablestreets.com street redesign contest a reader submitted this idea: What is now the southbound side of Blackstone Blvd becomes 2-way. 1...
GC: Photos – Westminster Street
Photo by conormac on Flickr
Flickr user, conormac submitted this photo of Westminster Street to to the Greater City Providence Flickr Group.
If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Group and submit them.
Greater City ProvidenceRoad Diet: Thomas Street
Thomas Street A Road Diet is when the overall width, lane width, or number of lanes on a road is reduced. The goal of the Road Diet is to reduce the speed of traffic and improve safety and or capacity for pedestrians...
Like: Hampton Lights
I was Downcity last week and saw that the new Hampton Inn (which is not quite open yet) has some really nice lighting up the facade of the building.
I likes!
GC: Photos – Brown tilt-shift fake
Photo by Don Rogers from Flickr
Don Rogers submitted some photos to our Flickr Group including the above tilt-shift fake of Brown University. It’s wicked cool, isn’t it?
Editorial: I-Way Quality Job 1?
Photo from RIDOT Driving home the other day and taking the new on-ramp to 195 off of 95 South, I couldn’t help but think about Jef Nickerson’s comments here on the blog regarding how outrageous it is that...
Bret AncowitzWhat Cheer/What Jeer: January 2009
Washington Trust What Cheer to Washington Trust for moving from their suburban style drive-thru ridden Washington Street location to a nice urban non-drive-thru location on Westminster. Bonus points for a most excellent...
Slow The Hell Down
Photo © e_pics from Flickr e_pics submitted the above photo to our Flickr Group. This photo is from Silver Spring Street at the entrance to Walmart. e_pics says he happened to run into the person who posted this...
GC: Photos – e_pics
Photo © e_pics from Flickr e_pics submitted some not so old but drastically changed streetscape photos to our Flickr Group. View more of e_pics Flickr photos here. If you’d like us to feature your Providence...
REBOOT: East Side Rail Tunnel (Part I)
Click image to enlarge REBOOT is an occasional series of posts on Greater City Providence where we identify areas of the city that display poor urbanism and propose ways to improve them. Our interventions may be simple...
GC: Photos – Providence at Night
Some cool shots from our Flickr Pool of the city at night:
New Providence River Bridge – Photo © Matthew Coolidge
Washington at Eddy Street – Photo © Pseudo_Work
IWay Bridge Lighting
This week we saw hints of what the completed IWay bridge lighting will look like. This doesn’t appear to be the complete picture, since, in this shot, the tower structures are not lit, and if you look carefully...
Matthew CoolidgeGC: Photos – The Arcade
Oh the Arcade, sigh. I’m trolling Flickr for Arcade photos, here’s some of my finds: Photo by daawn on Flickr Photo © Tseten on Flickr Photo © ggnyc on Flickr Photo by daawn on Flickr Some photos...
