Well, RIPTA’s current predicament and funding scheme actually is bad, but any lovers of mass transit or lovers of New York reading this NYTimes article would find it even more depressing… Some cuts that are...
Category - Transportation
Brown and Angell Traffic Change
An accident waiting to happen? The intersection at Brown Street and Angell Street on College Hill has long been a three way stop between the unidirectional Angell Street and the bidirectional Brown Street, with the...
Transit Gaps
Photo by SignalPAD from Flickr Today’s Boston Globe has a story about the Downeaster Amtrak service between Boston and Portland, Maine. The Downeaster is Amtrak’s fastest growing rail line, with ridership...
Transportation Bond Passes…
… and with it jobs will be created, critical infrastructure repairs will be accomplished, our region’s economic viability will improve, and the dream of taking the train to the plane from Boston through...
Pedestrian Scramble
Memorial Boulevard at College/Westminster Streets
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Google Maps Adds Walking Directions!
View Larger Map I spotted this post on Lifehacker this morning and immediately had to give it a shot. Sure enough, Google Maps now lets you find walking directions. I also noticed that when using GMaps to give you...
Biking Beyond Recreation
Photo credit: Alex Jarrett from the Pedal People website On the heels of the success of Bike To Work Day, the formation of the Providence Bicycle Coalition, and the recent news about Providence’s initiative to add...
If you rode a bike, you’d be home by now
Speck posted this on UrbanPlanet. While Greater City Providence certainly does not recommend riding your bike on the highway (you could get KILLED!), this video is too great not to share.
Read all about it on Vimeo.
RIPTA Hearings on proposed fare hikes
Board Votes to Hold Public Hearings on Proposed Fare Increases RIPTA’s board of directors voted at it’s April 7th meeting to hold public hearings on proposed fares increases. Sharp hikes in the cost of fuel...
Coming to a thoroughfare near you; bike lanes
Photo by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org In a press release about National Bike to Work Day (May 16th) we learn from Bike Providence that the city is planning to stripe bike lanes on several streets in the city. The City of...
Google Transit Rhode Island!
View Larger Map We asked for it, and we got it! As Daily Dose reported last night, Google Transit now includes the state of Rhode Island. This means that now whenever you use Google Maps to find directions in Rhody, you...
TOMORROW 02/27 Kennedy Plaza Placemaking Workshop
Click Image to enlarge If I read my emails I’d have known about this sooner, but here it is now, better late than never I suppose. I’ve called to get on the list to go, sounds interesting. Will post about it...
Google Transit and RIPTA
Google Transit Seattle I often hear people say they would like to use public transit more often, but understanding all the schedules and routes is cumbersome and time consuming. If you rely on public transit every day...
You can’t get there from here
Bad news, RIPTA’s Providence/Newport fast ferry service will end October 16, 2008, for good. RIPTA reports in their January 31st Destinations eNewsletter that the service will end do to the expiration of federal...
Hey, let’s take the train to Woonsocket
Photo by pdxstreetcar Wha? You may be asking yourself, ‘why would I want to go to Woonsocket?’ Be kind. Or you may be asking yourself, ‘There’s a train to Woonsocket?’ Well there are train...
Warwick lands one of 74 American Smart car dealerships
PBN reports that one of the 74 Smart Car dealerships slated for the US will be located in Warwick, on Bald Hill Road. The Smart Car is a tiny car popular in Europe and well suited to urban environments. Able to park...
Like: Put a subway rider in the White House
Photo by copyranter This should not be construed as a political endorsement (since Greater City Providence does not make endorsements), but I saw this photo on copyranter* and sure liked the sentiment. The photo was...
This is how people get killed by snowplows
Atwells Avenue, December 20, 2007. This is my walk to work. The City came out yesterday and moved the snow/ice from the parking lane and piled it up on the sidewalk (a city owned sidewalk). So a week after the Storm of...