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UPDATES: Bike lanes for Hope St – safety, common sense, good business – and money
Photo: Hope Street Merchants Assoc Facebook page See updates noted in red We continue to follow plans to “test” a one-mile temporary bike lane down the east side of Hope Street, planned for October. As the plan gets closer, there is a cacophony of opinions up and down busy Hope Street on the East Side…
Read MoreUPDATED: Hope Street tested as a biker’s Urban Trail
UPDATED: 8-2-2022 (this is a developing story) As plans come closer to an October “test” of turning a good portion of Hope Street into shared bike lanes, eliminating parking, increasing congestion on a dangerously already-slim roadway, and causing businesses are stepping forward to express concern about the ability of their customers to reach their stores.…
Read MoreRI construction season starts with $1.4 billion for these roads and bridges
Governor Dan McKee joined U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, Congressmen James Langevin and David Cicilline and RIDOT Director Peter Alviti, Jr. to kick off the start of RIDOT’s 2021 construction season. The event was held under the Providence Viaduct, a sprawling structurally deficient bridge in our state’s capital city. The $265 million Providence…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update Today, April 21, 2020
(Photo, top: India has created disinfectant tunnels for people, bikes, to go through) NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Disney stops paying 100,000 workers, roughly half its workforce, even as it protects executive bonus schemes and a $1.5 billion dividend payment due in July. US will halt all immigration to U.S. Brooklyn nursing home marks 55 deaths Tom…
Read MoreIn the News… recap for week ending Oct. 5, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Rhode Island Catholic received the Publick Occurrences Award by the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA) for its “Israel at War Series,” deemed “a remarkable 4-part report on the conflict in Israel and Gaza, written from firsthand observations.” The Newport City Council passing a resolution that directs the city manager to…
Read MoreIn the news… for March 23, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY The Rhode Island DEM closed a section of the East Bay bike path for repairs – set to open this weekend. A group called Rhode Island Deserves Better (dot org) claims Brown Univ & Rhode Island Hospital have had 124 violations of federal animal welfare rules since 2017. Proposing a bill…
Read MoreIn The News… summary for March 2, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY P.J. Fox, former director of the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence will become director of community violence intervention and prevention for Attorney General Peter Neronha RI Sen. Whitehouse said there were “many pots” of money at the national level to help pay for a bridge repair, takedown, etc.…
Read MoreIn The News… summary for Dec. 23, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation Executive Director Joseph Reposa has resigned, but will stay on as a consultant The expansion of the Pawtucket/Central Falls train station parking lot is nearing completion, with a grand opening expected next month The Johnston School Committee voted unanimously to approve a proposal by the Johnston…
Read More“Complete Streets” at Cranston meeting TONIGHT promotes walking, biking, public transportation…
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Read MoreIn the news… for November 18, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY James Fanale, past-CEO of Care New England has stage 4 lung cancer The Stellantis plant in Mansfield that will be closed will merge into one in Hudson Valley, NY Pawtucket Public Library is undergoing extensive repairs and renovations – it is hoped it will remain open throughout LeBaron Hills golf course…
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