View Larger Map Transportation For America has created the above map showing 38 transit agencies across the country (including RIPTA) which are facing funding cuts this year. The map was created by culling media reports...
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Jef NickersonSlow 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...
Reminder: I-95 South Closures Upcoming
As has been widely reported, I-95 will this week have the beginning of some intense work to remove overpasses. Downtown sections of the road will be closed to traffic during overnight hours. This will mostly be taking...
Bret AncowitzHint, Hint…
As has been widely reported, Team Obama is on their way to the inauguration via rail in what we all can hope will be symbolic of a greater mass transit push in the years ahead. One national newscast even described...
T.F. Green Intermodal Facility
T.F. Green Intermodal Facility Rendering T.F. Green Intermodal Facility Rendering If you haven’t been to the airport lately, you may not realize that the Intermodal Facility at the airport is actually well...
Hudson River plane crash
Photo REUTERS/Brendan McDermid from Boston.com Wow! Everyone made it out safe! Reports indicate that the plane hit a flock of birds (NTSB will not confirm that ahead of an investigation), disabling it’s engines...
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...
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...
Where’s the strategic investment?
In President-elect Obama’s weekly address he discusses American Recovery and Reinvestment. In the video above (transcript here) Obama says: That’s why we need an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that...
The Answer to RIPTA’s Crisis?
image (cc) Ric e Ette This morning I read on MAKE Magazine about the Busycle: Called the Busycle, this bicycle behemoth moves under the power of 28 human legs, plus a driver. And while it can only go about 4 miles per...
Matthew CoolidgeFree T Tonight
Photo (cc) TalkingTree from Flickr The MBTA has free service tonight (yes that includes Commuter Rail from and to Providence), and special services after midnight. Meanwhile RIPTA is detouring buses all over creation...
Free WiFi on the MBTA
According to the MBTA website, they will be rolling out free WiFi on all commuter rail systems in the Spring! Based on our successful pilot program on the Framingham/Worcester Line, the MBTA is proud to offer its...
What Do You Think of a Gas Tax?
All of a sudden, the idea of instituting a much higher gas tax (to keep gas at about 4-5 dollars a gallon) to fund transportation and infrastructure seem to be getting a lot of press. The comprehensive automotive...
NYTimes Friedman: Stop Being “Dumb” and Focus on Infrastructure
Tom Friedman, the author and NYTimes commentator, is hardly new to the “infrastructure is sexy” school of thought. His writing is always interesting, controversial, and powerful (if a bit simplistic...
Sidewalk 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...
No American Streetcars!?!?
I got to thinking about streetcars and who builds them during a recent North Main Street meeting held by the Summit Neighborhood Association. Fellow gcpvd’er David Rocha mentioned that perhaps our struggling U.S...
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...
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...
