The Providence Bicycle Coalition holds a monthly advocacy meeting. If you are interested in bicycle advocacy, come join us and share your thoughts. This month, we will be meeting at the The Hub @ 6pm. We plan to have wireless access, so bring your laptop and learn how to post items to the website. Hope
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Plan to join us for our 2nd Webinar on December 6, 2007 12-2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time STPP and CNT are hosting the second “From the Margins to the Mainstream” Webinar to discuss integrating transit services into community planning and design in understandable terms for the non-technical person. Audience interaction will be a key part
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The next meeting of the TAC is on October 25th. In case you missed the last meeting, here is a summary of comments. We were happy to see how many people, from a variety of backgrounds, were interested in better bicycle infrastructure. The Providence Planning Board site posted an amended transportation plan, including these latest
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GARI (Greenways Alliance of Rhode Island) holds its monthly meeting on Wednesday Oct 24 at Gibbs College in Cranston from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
On October 30th Providence City Councilman Cliff Wood is leading a forum about energy use and sustainability, with sponsorship by the Providence City Council and participation and support from Mayor Cicilline. Daniel Lerch of the Post-Carbon Institute will participate in the discussions titled Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty. Daniel Lerch of
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Here’s something to consider: One of the reasons that many of Providence’s streets are such a disaster is that the utility companies, after digging then patching, don’t return to resurface after their patches have sunk. Recently I learned (I think from John Nickelson? Someone else on this list was there at the time and can
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The cyclists over at Bike-To-Brown are tracking what could become a serious problem for cyclists traveling in and out of Providence to and from the East Bay area. As most everyone is aware, the Washington Bridge pedestrian walk way is closed and will likely remain so for many more years. This is diverting cyclists over
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The right sidebar on the Bike Providence site has an area highlighting the Upcoming Events. This section lists titles of the next thirty days worth of events we know about. If you are interested in events farther into the future, take a look at the full events page. This page lists all the upcoming events
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That’s right, it’s been six years in Providence, and after a few months we’re more or less settled at the new space on Charles Street. Come by on sunday and we’ll recall fondly our tales of road rash, homicidal drivers, tours de beer, and that time you got your cuff stuck in your crank and
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GETTING THERE: Transportation for a Prosperous, Sustainable Rhode Island Meet Charles Hales, a strategic planner with a focus on livable communities, transit, innovation, and public-private partnerships. As a Commissioner of Planning and Transportation for the City of Portland, Hales established a record as a national leader in the integration of land-use planning and transportation project
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