There's a noise coming from Providence College some nights that sounds like something out of War of The Worlds. It seems like there is a ludicrous amount of cars in this small city, all aggressively gunning it from stop sign to speed bump.

This is the logical (and inevitable) conclusion of car-centric planning. I know it’ll never happen and it’s not feasible financially anyway, but burying 95 like they did with 93 in Boston would so drastically improve the quality of life throughout our city.

”Yngwe Palpatine” damn that was funny. I hope you all have punny Star Wars names. “Boba Fret”, “Admiral Axebar” - you can have those two for free. “Han Solo” for the lead guitarist works without alteration.

Agreed. I like within sight of the Armory, go to Dexter park every day, have never had a problem with what OP is talking about. The only problem I’ve ever had is light harassment from men who almost certainly had homes. So men—NIMBY? Obviously not.

Love this view and the colors!

For what, 3 or 4 miles?

Cool band from Kentucky that basically doesn't exist on youtube... But they live on in archive.org's live music archive. https://archive.org/details/Fork.in.Socket

Fork.in.Socket plays the Imperial March
https://ia803405.us.archive.org/11/items/FiS2006-04-21.flac16/FiS2006-04-21t03.mp3

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Kimis is a nice little bar with great drinks and usually has a DJ. Great vibes and great music

I highly doubt enough people would be riding a train from fall river to PVD where this makes sense economically

Supercool shot

One of those is between Boston and Providence. The other one is in RI. At the Mansfield station it hits 150.

Can we make it Dubuque instead?

The new owner has turned the lights I read for the holidays. I noticed several floors had lights on recently too. Hopefully means they are moving forward with the renovations.

Well, there is free parking at Battleship Cove, but we’ve already established they have to get rid of that

The solution to the trash is any easy one. Assign a team of people who are staying at the armory to go out and clean up the park and surrounding neighborhood each day, there are plenty of able bodied individuals staying there who have plenty of time to pitch in and help keep the neighborhood clean.

So we're starting a multibillion dollar project banking on people who want to go to Battleship Cove every day. We have to get Battleship Cove to charge $25 for parking while they currently charge nothing while keeping the price of train tickets for a family below the cost to park. Or we'll count on all the people who go to Battleship Cove by themselves. Disregarding the fact that it is Fall River and you can find cheap or free parking everywhere.

Acela only hits 150 in a few small stretches. None of those are between Boston and Providence.

In fact, travel time from Providence to South Station on Acela is only a few minutes less than standard Amtrak.

And Acela is expensive… not really viable for a regular commuter.

You're thinking of MBTA. Accella is 150mph and doesn't have to go south at 128 like 95 does.

Acela is only “high speed” when compared with rush hour traffic on 95. 😁

No, they explicitly state they have apartments. Not sure why I got downvoted like that when I have a substantial amount of first hand experience with the situation and the population in general, but that’s Reddit for you, speculation confirming the bias of the average user of a given sub will always receive more positive reaction than first hand knowledge which doesn’t jive with a preconceived idea

If they ever decided to to make Battleship Cove parking cost $25 instead of $0 and you were the type of person that goes there every single day they're open, this would save you approximately $4500 per year (minus whatever the cost of 180 or so roundtrip train tickets are).

Thanks! Will definitely stop by for a beer soon. Hope to meet Jimmy!