The winning idea of the fun theory award, submitted by Kevin Richardson, USA. Can we get more people to obey the speed limit by making it fun to do? This was the question Kevin’s idea answered and it was so good...
Category - Roads
Greater City ProvidenceReader Submission: RIDOT’s idea of a sidewalk
A reader sent in these photos from the new Friendship Street bridge over Route 95.
Thanks RIDOT.
Update 12/01: Our reader sends in a possible fix for this signage:
How do you solve a problem like Atwells?
The main problem of course is, people keep getting hit by cars on the Avenue. There are perhaps two ways to stop this, enforcement and infrastructure.
Jef NickersonApparently everyone\’s grandmothers live north of Providence
Route 95 at Atwells Avenue, 1:45pm.
Dean & Atwells, will we ever get crosswalks?
On the way home this evening I was greeted by sidewalks finally being finished, almost 14 months after they were removed at Atwells Avenue and Dean Street. Yay, I guess. Would have been nice for them to be finished 3...
Free holiday parking starts Nov. 26
City of Providence Press Release: Shoppers offered two hours of free parking to make it easier for people to Buy Providence this holiday season PROVIDENCE – Holiday shoppers will be able to park two hours for free...
StreetFilms: Revisiting Donald Appleyard\’s Livable Streets
Revisiting Donald Appleyard’s Livable Streets from Streetfilms on Vimeo.
The road printer
Laying down brick pavers like an old-fashioned dot-matrix printer.
Via BLDG BLOG
Thoughts on the Councilman Hassett hit and run
Atwells Avenue. Image from Google StreetView First, this goes without saying, but let’s say it because I’m about to get angry. Our thoughts (and I’m sure for those of us that do so, prayers) are with...
Los Angeles CicLAvia
StreetFilms CiclovÃÂas are an event where a major street(s) in a city is closed to automobiles and turned over to bikes (and pedestrians, and dancers, and performers, and a whole bunch of non-auto activity). The...
Elmwood Avenue Enhancement Report
From Community Works Rhode Island comes the Elmwood Avenue Enhancement Report . RIDOT has been planning for the rebuilding of Elmwood Avenue, and their proposals were typical RIDOT move as many cars as possible in the...
RIDOT announces Clifford Street bridge to open Oct. 13, other traffic changes
RIDOT announced today a number of changes to the street patterns west of the Jewelry District as part of the Iway project: The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today announced that a number of changes...
Night Shift
Just as I was getting annoyed again that work had stalled here again, a night crew is at work busily removing the brick pavers from Dean Street at Atwells. It’s a little loud, but I’m glad work’s...
StreetFilms: Traffic Calming Postcards from London
As we look towards rebuilding a bunch of former streets in the 195 corridor, and as we simply turn our attention back to our aging infrastructure, this video from London is timely. Sure, Providence is no London, but we...
Dean Street, finally, maybe
The cynic in me has to wonder if the fact that this project started a year ago, has been stagnant all summer, and just got back into gear this week, has anything to do with when the Primary Elections happened...
First-ever New England Bike-Walk Summit
Thursday, October 7 at the Marriott Courtyard, 32 Exchange Terrace, Providence, RI Support better biking and walking in Providence, around Rhode Island, & throughout New England, and learn about what’s...
Matthew Coolidge20’s Plenty
In the UK, some 3 million people live in areas with 20 mph speed limits. The experience there shows that not only do slower speeds save lives, but lowering the limit to 20 mph improves the way local streets function in...
