I love Providence, born and raised. It’s hard for locals to see their city change. It’s so much more expensive and crowded than it was before. Even just pre-Covid. It doesn’t help brown university bought all of Thayer street and drove out small business, then bought all of the jewelry district and changed that entirely and has been purchasing homes in fox point and driving up our cost of rent. It feels like a lot of people are just discovering Providence exists and it’s been hard on the people that have been here. Most of the comments I’ve read just on this post are people moving in to town. It’s not your fault, but people are being pushed out to make room.

I love this city but everything I love about is always under threat. I grew up in Providence and I’ve lived around the world. What’s great about providence is that it has the amenities of larger cities while still holding on to the home town feeling. That feeling of knowing how to get around the local way and avoid the tourist traps. That fact that their is a tourist trap and a local alternative to begin with. The local artists whose work you can follow by visiting local galleries or knowing the streets to walk down to see their new “installation”. I love the immigrant communities from all over the world that make this city diverse and actually add culture instead of a commercial version of it. This city really is a creative hub not so much because the artists and creatives are leading the decision making but because people from all walks of life come together to cover the metaphorical pot holes left behind by our governing body. I’ve seen geriatric refugees show 10 year olds how to dance the way they did when they were young. I’ve seen communities at odds come together and mourn and respect each other due to their loss. This city will take your breath away with its beauty if you let it. And at the same time there are people who actively try to push the poor out and sanitize this city in the name of profit and greed and so many people are more than happy to let them do it and that’s why I get sad and complain about this mess.

I’m in Warren and wouldn’t want this at all. I can’t imagine there’s a large interest in this for EP, Barrington, Riverside or Warren. We have Ripta already, it’s an easy ride to prov, and this would kill the east bay bike path. Noise pollution would also suck.

From a logistics POV- I just don’t think it’s possible also. Not enough room and would need to take down peoples homes or cut into their properties.

Someone else mentioned this but have this train run near 195 and route 6.

I wonder if she thought she was about to be served and wanted to avoid it

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free. Skip the projo paywall.

The basics:

You should be able to file for free through the IRS Free File, assuming an adjusted gross income (AGI) below $73k a year.

Free state tax return as well.

If you worked in surrounding states, I break down which program lets you file free state returns.

Example: If you worked in MA last year but lived here, TaxSlayer is probably your best Free File bet, to file an RI, MA and federal tax return.

Cumtown

Well spotted

they copied "Cum" from the top line and pasted it over "chill"

That can’t possibly be real, right?

As a side note to this - it’s my opinion that a more efficient route would utilize sections of Route 6 and I-195… however, coordinating with state and federal agencies for this would probably be a nightmare lol

30th? The Freeplay club does a lot of 90s/00s music nights.

rhode island residents are quite fond of ripta. Heavily investing in **real**, high-frequency, high-quality BRT is the likeliest way to have enough public support to improve public transportation to a respectable LoS

Oh no! Transplants! Transplants are what make cities cities. That's the whole deal with urbanization, throughout all of history - people move to cities "from away". If you want a place with very few transplants, small towns are where it's at.

"Hello, fellow kids!"

This and also, these hypothetical lines are placed in places that some of these towns will never give up. Warren's is parallel to 103 which already has severe traffic problems. As someone who lives right there, the parking lot they would theoretically use for the mbta means we'd have to give up our dog park and I don't want the noise pollution. Plus that bike path is USED maybe more so than any other one in the state.

If anything we should extend our bus lines so the Fall River line runs more times per day and there's better service to New Bedford.

Wrong.

Minuteman Bikeway in MA for example.

The bike path is not just for recreation, it is also used by many as a safe way to get from point A to point B without biking on busy streets.

Unfortunately no one rides the train. This seems like a money pit. Run buses for a fraction of this investment. The concept though is interesting, is there demand?

A train would solve a problem of utility while the bike path solves a problem of recreation.

The trouble with this is that many sections of that line are just barely above sea level right now. Any sort of long-term investment in reopening the corridor as a rail line would be at risk due to sea level rise.

So all of my information is very old and second/third hand but one of the old GMs of the T was pushing for something like this. He wanted to extend the Plymouth line to swing down by the cape bridges and create a south coast loop.

He also wanted to revitalize the port in Fall River and have the state move the import/export seaport there. He wanted to move away from the Boston being the center of the universe model that exists and start servicing the rest of the state and region.

So they forced him out.

I'm all for increasing public transportation, but I'd rather have the bike path that currently sits where these old train tracks were.

The business model is based on the premise that there is a critical mass of people too polite to tell someone to fuck off. You push hard enough long enough, and someone somewhere will agree to just about anything.

It's 2023 and I'm shocked that you still have a working doorbell. 😂 Do yourself a favor and disconnect the bell inside your unit. It's two wires held on by screws. Pop the cover off and loosen one of the two screws. Tell your friends who visit to text you when they arrive.