Some preliminary results from a Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) subcommittee meeting on bike/ped projects submitted for the next 4 year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) that RIDOT tentatively allocated about $3.4 million/year. Projects that scored well enough to possibly continue, though the subcommittee will be meeting again to review this, and results must be approved by the entire TAC, the State Planning Council etc, and all of them need design work:
- Coventry connection from bike path to Middle School
- East Bay Bike path extension in Warren (though route between County Rd and Metacom unresolved)
- East Greenwich – Warwick bike/ped bridge connection near Forge Rd
- South County Bikeway, phase 4 – though final route in Narragansett still uncertain
- Jamestown “Ice Road” path connecting North Rd, East Shore Rd
- Tiverton bikeway
- Possible bike path along Bay Commission route along river near Gano
- URI connection from south county path to campus
- Woonsocket extension of the Blackstone bikeway
Likely to be left out of the TIP:
- Middletown proposals to add bike paths alongside West Main Rd, East Main Rd, Burma Rd
- “Hope Spur” in W Warwick-Coventry
- signage projects in Burrillville, Coventry, Woonsocket
- a bike path alongside Corn Neck Rd on Block Island
- funding the extension of Blackstone Bikeway in Cumberland/Central Falls
- proposed Truman Drive bikeway in Woonsocket
- Popasquash Rd bikeway in Bristol
- bike access to Jamestown bridge
- development of Pontiac Secondary bikeway in Cranston.
And there are still earmarks remaining for the West Bay path in Coventry, 10-Mile River extension, and the Woonasquatucket.
All of this is still subject to public review. RIBikers can also communicate their thoughts about this on this site or by contacting Sue Barker or Barry Schiller who are on the TAC