Rendering by Ron Henderson / L+A Landscape Architecture | Click image to enlarge The College Hill Neighborhood Association is having a meeting on the Core Connector (aka Streetcar) Study, see below: To all Neighborhood...
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Greater City ProvidenceStreetcar study Public Meetings
RIPTA and the City of Providence will be holding public meetings this month on their “Circulator” Providence Core Connector Study project, you may know the Providence Core Connector better as the streetcar...
Jef NickersonRIPTA gets $700k in federal funds for new bus hubs
The Federal Transportation Administration announced who is receiving $290 million in TIGER funds for “Urban Circulator/Bus and Bus Livability Projects.” Rhode Island is among the recipients with $700,000...
Transportation Secretary LaHood visits Providence
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Providence today to learn more about the Metro Transit Study. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the forum held during his visit (anyone who did, please feel free to...
Here we go again
Photo by Jef Nickerson ProJo reports that RIPTA is once again, in a now annual tradition, looking at fare hikes and service cuts to balance their budget deficit. John Rupp, the board chairman, said it will try to design...
Reader Submission: Thayer Street Station Rendering
Rendering by Ron Henderson / L+A Landscape Architecture | Click image to enlarge Reader, Peter Brassard submitted The above rendering of a possible streetcar/bus station at the top of the tunnel on Thayer Street is from...
Video: Meet Edgar Staff
Video from the Sierra Club of Rhode Island
REBOOT: College Hill Transit Sub-Hub Part 2
Tunnel portal at Thayer Street. Photo by Jef Nickerson. REBOOT is an occasional series of posts on GC:PVD where we identify areas of the city that display poor urbanism and propose ways to improve them. Our...
Video: D.C. revives the streetcar
Clean Skies looks at streetcars returning to the Nation’s capital.
Building Brown
ProJo takes a look at Brown’s scaled back development plans for Providence. Let’s take a closer look at the actual projects. Creative Arts Center Rendering view from Olive Street, from Building Brown...
REBOOT: College Hill Transit Sub-Hub
REBOOT is an occasional series of posts on GC:PVD where we identify areas of the city that display poor urbanism and propose ways to improve them. Our interventions may be simple and quite easily realized, or they may...
Marketing public transit: Los Angeles
Marketing public transit: Los Angeles LA Metro: Promoting Mass Transit from EMBARQ Network on Vimeo. The City Fix takes a look at Los Angeles’ successful campaign to rebrand and market their transit agency, Metro...
A look at streetcar rail placement
Photo from District (of Columbia) Department of Transportation Facebook page As we get serious around here about getting some streetcars running, we should start looking around at what other cities are doing. No...
Metro Transit Study
Today, RIPTA released their long awaited Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement Study, which looks to improve transit within the Rhode Island urban core centered on Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Warwick...
Metro Transit Study to be released Thursday
Photo (cc) Providence Public Library The ProJo has a very good comprehensive story on the Metro Transit Study which is to be officially released on Thursday. Really, it is a good story, the best, most balanced story on...
