View Larger Map As the Iway project moves along, RIDOT and the city are looking at the rebuilt street grid below where the highway now stands. See the RIDOT plans here: Download RIDOT Street Grid Plan (east of...
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Parking Sign FAIL
Sigh. Where to start, let’s start at the top. “No Parking Here to Corner” First, why do we need this sign on every corner? Most other municipalities make this plain with yellow markings on the curb...
Rep. Ed Pacheco proposes Transportation Council
Rep. Edwin Pacheco (D-District 47, Burrillville, Glocester) proposed yesterday the creation of a Transportation Review Council. STATE HOUSE – Rep. Edwin R. Pacheco has introduced legislation that would create a...
T.F. Green Intermodal Facility, June Update
It isn’t posted on the Airport website yet, but here is the June update on the Intermodal Facility at T.F. Green: Photos from RIAC: Skybridge night work over Post Road. A view of the Skywalk construction. Work at...
Streetfilms looks at Phoenix Light Rail and Seattle Streetcars
Streetfilms looks at the new light rail line in Phoenix as well as the new streetcar line in Seattle. Streetfilms | Phoenix METRO Light Rail The Valley Metro light rail line is a 20-mile starter line with 28 stations...
Video: Barcelona by streetcar in 1908
Barcelona by streetcar in 1908; via Bicycle Fixation.
House holds nose, maintains status quo at RIPTA
Photo by vistavision from Flickr A newish group called the New Public Transit Alliance has been lobbying to get more equitable and reliable funding for RIPTA. Yesterday, the House voted to approve a 2¢ hike to the...
Everybody Fung Wah to New York
Photo © Raastah from Flickr Reader Raastah reminds us that Fung Wah Bus is now providing direct service from Providence to New York City. Buses depart in the morning from 50 Exchange Terrace across from the Skating...
GC: Photos – T.F. Green Skywalk
The T.F. Green Intermodal Facility is moving right along. Below are some photos of the Skywalk which will eventually connect the airport to the train station and parking structure across Post Road. Photo © Raastah...
What do you want from your bus stop?
EyeStop rendering from MIT Students at MITs SENSEable City Lab have created the EyeStop, a prototype high tech bus stop for the city of Florence, Italy. The press release describes the EyeStop as: EyeStop, developed by...
FAA Preliminarily Approves T.F. Green Runway
Photo (cc) thisisbossi from flickr.com As Ted Nesi reports in the PBN, the FAA has given its preliminary blessing to a TF Green runway expansion plan that involves lengthening its main runway southward. The final...
Our Transportation Secretary wants you out of your car!
Empty parking lot photo by sameold2008 from Flickr Ray LaHood, Transportation Secretary for the new Obama administration, has recently been quoted as wanting to “coerce people out of their cars.” Good news...
“Driving RIPTA into the future”
So while we hear endlessly about RIPTA’s budget crisis, the agency is plugging along on future planning. The above video, which is slightly treacly I know, outlines some of the planning that RIPTA is doing. RIPTA...
Ozone Alert Tomorrow (May 22, 2009) FREE RIPTA
Seems early, it’s not even Memorial Day yet, but the state has issued an air quality alert for tomorrow, which means RIPTA buses will be free to encourage people to leave their cars at home. View it as a good...
In other RIPTA news…
Oh no! No money! We need money! Service cuts! Dire! The Providence Journal reports tomorrow today… But basically, you can just read what I wrote in January. PS: In January, RIPTA’s deficit was $1.3 million...
You can haz RIPTA Ferry!
ProJo reports that we will have ferry service between Newport and Providence this summer after-all. Dubbed the Providence-Newport Water Taxi on RIPTA’s website the service will use a smaller vessel than...
Copenhagen // City of Cyclists
Copenhagen – City of Cyclists from Colville Andersen on Vimeo. Via Streetsblog.
Cahill, Patrick at odds over paying for South Coast rail
Photo by Eric Rice from Flickr Ted Nesi reports for Providence Business News about how Massachusetts State Treasurer Timothy Cahill and Governor Deval Patrick are not seeing eye to eye on funding for restoration of...