Speaking of Trump, does he ride a bike?

Honestly, you're not going to find much at all for 1k or less. You should start looking for roommates.

No the first two times my car was brand new (to me, I bought used). It was completely empty. I had it for a week then it was broken into, then after 1 month I took it home, three days later it was broken into again, same thing. I had to bring my car back the shop the same week for another month.

But your Honor they got mad lights over there.

Unfortunately, we're kind of running out of time to meet our 2030 climate goals here, we cannot keep katowing to businesses and wealthy people.

I'd wager that if we put accessible infrastructure on the side streets, it'd still be opposed by residents and businesses because:

• it would reduce business overflow parking

• bring in poorer people who have less money and commit more crime

• streets wouldn't be able to plow, garbage collection couldn't happen

Note: all these are of course, false and hyperbolic but would likely be used to oppose it.

In the attempted thefts they ripped out the steering column to try hotwiring it. Not an expensive car, I'd but be broke without insurance... Thanks for all the info, much appreciated!

This has already been answered in providence's great streets plan. Federal and state guidelines dictate roads have to fit trailers, garbage trucks, plows, etc.

The real question though is: what about everyone else who doesn't drive? They literally don't even have a lane.

Also, businesses ALWAYS oppose bike lane when they are proposed, whether they are good locations for them or not. You can’t take “businesses objections” at face value. You need to parse out what’s an insightful objection and what’s just fear. On south water it’s become apparent objections were pure fear. There’s been no negative outcomes from the bike lanes installation—so if the city had listened to the 4 businesses that were against it then the city would have made the wrong choice and not built the bike lane here.

But what would be the point of removing south water street lane? It clearly does work. There’s been in depth traffic studies showing that there is not even remotely a traffic issue on the street. No parking spaces were lost. Local businesses are doing well. Is there ANY basis for removing the south water lane other than the detractors having too big of an ego to admit they were wrong?

pretty sure that is only yard waste and not food scraps

That area has also been HEAVILY gentrified via the WBNA. Never saw a neighborhood organization so intent on controlling what businesses establish themselves as the WBNA does.

I second this. I live right next to the JWU campus on a dead end street. No crime, porch pirates, or sounds of the highway. We moved from Smith Hill a year ago, and comparatively, you can hear a pin drop in the area.

well clearly you floor it and speed through.

You might try Reliable Jewelry & Loan on Westminster st

They've always been fair the handful of times I've been in. I have bought and sold to them on more than one occasion.

Rocks paper scissors winner picks green GOOOOOO

You’re right about the proximity of neighbors, and nothing you can really do about that.

For AC it’s much better to have the permanent split unit AC system. It’s expensive to install, but worth it in the long term. You obviously you need to be a homeowner or have an amazing landlord to make this kind of investment, otherwise I don’t know what you could do.

Roger Wms Park Botanical Gardens (Tahiti!) + Natural History Museum + Planetarium then out the Elmwood exit to Apsara's.

Bundle up and park on East St and walk across the pedestrian bridge into India Point Park and start with the placard near the Community Boating shack, read all the placards to the last one at the other end on the Seekonk River tip of the park then circle back, hit Narragansett Brewery for a beverage, then fetch your car and drive up Ives, pick an eatery from Noodles to burgers to Mexican to Thai.

Drop in on the guys at Gather on Atwells, see if you might want to try glassblowing some time.

If you want to get out of the city, think it's just about the time of year you can go seal watching from shore?

Have they released the results of the surveys and studies they did from Hope St yet? I don’t think I’ve seen them.

There is a precedent of removing them. It happened on Eaton St a few years ago. Same thing with temporary bike lanes in East Providence that barely lasted a week. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. Especially when it was pushed through with very little input from the local community, which was the case with the South Water St lanes. Its been a huge controversy since they first started building it, but the city plowed ahead over the objections and did it anyway.

I also have to say, while I personally support the idea of a Hope Street bike lane, the bike community wasted a huge amount of political capital on that effort and put all bike lanes, including south water, at risk. Putting it on a parallel street to hope would have been so much less controversial and had the same effect for access. Instead we started this massive battle that created enemies with voters who otherwise would have been ambivalent at most about bike lanes.

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There’s not an increase in traffic. South Water Street is empty 95% of the day and barely has traffic at rush hour. That’s partially why the bike lane makes sense at that location—the road was previously way over capacity for how many cars used it.

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There aren’t that man businesses on south water and right now at least Wild Colonial, Cafe Modest, and Baccaro support the bike lane. I bet others do too now that it’s been implemented and hasn’t effected their business. The PVD streets coalition should organize these businesses so show the new mayor that businesses do support it.

We need to change our tact here. Smiley is a new mayor who is still pretty ignorant about basic city planning practices. Now is the time to educate him in a supportive way, not alienate him and push him further right by name calling.

I think he’s a pragmatist and he’s just heard more from the few but vocal opponents than he has from supporters and so he thinks this anti-south water street bike path view is the popular one.

Now is the time to letter write to show that many voters support this sort of infrastructure.