There’s a lot of head-scratching and finger pointing about schools being closed yesterday (and some today). There was a forecast for 2-4 inches of snow yesterday, but the storm ended up sailing south of us, with...
Category - Snow
Jef NickersonThis is how Boston gets it done
The Boston Globe reports today about Boston’s high-tech approach to enforcing snow removal laws. Code inspectors have taken to the streets this winter with a new weapon, palm-size computers with touch screens that...
Bus Shelter Snow Shoveling Answer
Mary Ann Barbary from the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority generously answered a question I emailed her about a topic that came up several weeks ago here on the Greater City Providence… When it snows, who is...
Bret AncowitzHere comes the snow again
Winter Storm Watch, you know the drill, bread, milk, rant about sidewalks. I love snow and I love ranting! Should be a slippery New Year’s Eve. ProJo reports people across the state are losing power already due to...
Sidewalk rant: Reader submitted edition
Mid-90s vintage Providence photo by Jef Nickerson Bob Vennerbeck wrote to us to share his vintage 1993 sidewalk rant. Actually it’s more of a short story. Bob sent this to the Journal back on February 22, 1993;...
Guest PostSidewalk rant: Bus stop edition
I’ve seen bus shelters along Douglas Ave completely inaccessible and people standing in the street waiting for the bus. Outside my office on Jefferson Blvd, my coworkers wait for their bus at the above pictured...
Matthew CoolidgeSidewalk rant: Day 3, too little too late edition
This morning city workers were throwing a sand and salt mix on top of the 10 inches of ice on the Atwells Avenue overpass sidewalks. Seriously? Many sidewalks Downcity were dry this morning, the Hilton and the Dunk...
Sidewalk rant: Day 2
Atwells Avenue Bridge over Route 95 this afternoon:
Sorry for the blurriness, I was running out of light.
Annual sidewalk rant: Neverending snowstorm edition
An ongoing tradition here at Greater City Providence, the annual sidewalk rant. So let’s start with the peeviest of my peeves, the Route 95 overpasses. This is the snow on the sidewalks on the Broadway Bridge this...
Shoveling the Sidewalk – It’s the Law
Inspired by Jef’s fun live-blogging of the snow storm (who hasn’t enjoyed the blizzard so far?) it’s time for us to shine the brightest of spotlights onto the clearing (or lack thereof) of the...
Quick! Buy bread!
Heavy snow tomorrow, snow showers Saturday, wintry mix Sunday! Buy bread and don’t get on any school buses. I hear Carcieri is at Penny’s right now buying a flannel shirt.
It snowed where?
AP Photo by Alex Brandon It snowed in New Orleans today?! They get streetcars, they get snow… New Orleans is so lucky. 🙁 Update: What the what!? Houston has streetcars and snow too! AP Photo/Houston Chronicle...
