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...
Category - Roads
Jef NickersonThe Squares of Providence
View Larger Map About two years ago on the Urbanplanet.org site (which was the primordial soup from which Greater City Providence emerged and was born) I posted about trying to maintain a list of all of the public...
Bret AncowitzVideo: Potholidence
Traffic navigating the potholes on Dean (more pothole than) Street this afternoon. Some still photos after the jump:
ProJo collecting “killer pothole” photos
North Main Street at Steeple Street. Photo by Jef Nickerson Sheila reports this morning on the ProJo’s effort to collect pothole photos. Potholes are sneaky and dangerous; the worst offer the motorist a choice...
The Curious Case of the Missing Manhole Cover
Reader submitted photos A reader writes to tell us of this manhole cover which has been missing since at least January 21st. The manhole in question is on Bernon Street at Candace Street next to the Smith Hill Public...
Greater City ProvidencePothole Nation
Photo of this pothole downtown by justincase1021 at flickr.com Traffic calming is achieved! I think it is now impossible, by the laws of physics, to speed on Providence roads without completely shredding one’s...
Don’t abandon Bradford Street
Last October, hundreds of Providence residents, as well as city employees and elected officials, participated in the week-long kickoff of Providence Tomorrow, a neighborhood planning and growth process that showed that...
