Lived in providence for 4 years and worked their for 6. Best city I’ve lived/worked in hands down.

dank

Not that it’s ever gonna happen, but at school I’m in a studio class, and we’re working on a student planning project in the area around Cathedral Square for school, and the city head engineer and head landscape architect are both interested in our projects. My plan is to bury 95 as well (as well as do a bunch of stuff on top but I haven’t gotten that far yet)

ETA: my professor has also mentioned something about a federal bill named the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, designed at making our cities rely less on highways. So perhaps that could be a way forward

The 2 streets next to mine they put speed bumps in and the noise increased. People braking hard and then accelerating after the bump.

Maine for me, but same.

I think you’re making a lot of assumptions here. There are far more transplants who respect public spaces or actively volunteer in the community than are assholes. I personally find the worst offenders of destructive/disruptive behavior to actually be people who were born and raised here. Ignorant people are everywhere, but I’ve noticed they just tend to stay put.

Universities who accept more students than they could ever possibly house is another story - though I don’t know how related it is to sharing “Secret Spots” for introverts.

Well overpopulation for a city this size would increase noise levels, then you got the ding dongs who blast loud music from their cars, houses, or open spaces that don't help.

In regards to people who blast loud music from their cars, houses, or loud pipes on bikes/cars I wonder which neighborhood in Providence is least affected by this and why?

Can’t say I hang with people from HS still, I work a fulfilling job that helps provide for the city I grew up in and I interact with many communities. I appreciate some aspects of what transplants do for the city but I’ve also been witness to how it’s ruined aspects and hindered better development and pander to the universities.
I don’t care if someone tells someone about the Starbucks in wayland sq. Y’all aren’t really grasping it. There are parts of RI , not commerce related, that have been ruined. Areas that get overcrowded and treated like shit because people don’t have respect for their new communities. A good example is Camp Cronin. Camp Cronin was a “Secret spot” for people in RI who were sick of the overcrowding of our state beaches. Then, the gentrification boom of 10-15 years ago caused some people (someone I actually went to high school with) to write a trendy article in the hip local alternative newspaper. Great spot is now treated like the piss ditch at burning man. I’m sure you don’t want to hear about the environmental impact it causes, right? I must be an idiot for not pandering to people who move to a new town and treat it badly.

Also: recent opinion piece on this: https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/09/sender-25-the-highway-divided-providence-a-cap-over-i-95-can-fix-it

I am not seeing details about it publicly, but I had them do a sound survey at my place, and the meter was here for a full week. I'm not sure if that's a phase 2 to this project or what though.

Edit: here's some more info on what I participated in:

> Multiple times a week, Nina Lee finds herself in a Rhode Islander’s backyard. She unpacks and then assembles an environmental noise monitor and begins recording. A week later, she’ll return to the site, collect the monitor and store the data for future statistical analysis.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-08-30/lee

The article says that results are expected to be published ~Fall 2023

I wholeheartedly agree that this would be amazing. My question is. How can we make this happen? What can we do as citizens to start this conversation?

Thanks for the link. 5 minutes is pretty short for these kinds of measurements, but I imagine they were limited by the sheer scale of the project. I'm not sure what they mean by "combining" daytime and nighttime noise levels, but their measurements aren't actually that loud. Most of them don't exceed the maximum allowed by the code, and the ones that do exceed it by less than 3 dB.

HA HA PROVIDENCE GO BRRRRR

There are better methods to reduce speeding than stop signs and speed bumps but those methods usually require removing some on-street parking, installing barriers, and narrowing roads among other traffic calming elements. Usually those methods are expensive and not always popular but they do work much better than speed bumps and cameras.

hang on… you want to interact with the same 15 people you went to school with for the rest of your life? I’m from here and I still moved here for the transplants lmao

I like them but their board meetings are a train wreck of DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) virtue signaling. BlackRock funded multi-national companies can afford to play these games but small businesses need to be ruthless with their revenue and expenses.

>Did they actually do any measurements?

Yes:

> To gather data on noise pollution in Providence, Brown students canvassed 180 city locations near interstate highways, construction sites, health care centers, schools and parks to collect 5-minute noise readings, day and night, using research-grade sound level meters. The accumulated samples — which totaled 720 sound level measurements from across the city — allowed students to generate a community noise map and produce a report card, rating neighborhoods by noise.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-12-11/providence-noise-pollution

It’s not that fast but more importantly also not that frequent.

Where I live on federal hill, the problem is almost entirely enforcement. The noise stems from cars/bikes with illegal exhaust modifications driving through town or going out to eat. I WFH and hear noise pollution all day. While there are sirens, honks, cat noise in general, removing the 1% who blatantly break the law would fix 90% of the problem.

Nothing like the BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR noise of some lazy asshole semi driver downshifting on the highway without feeling like he has to apply the brake.

I can’t hear you over the brrrrrrrrrap

I dream of moving to Vermont for a lot of reasons, but one of them is definitely escaping the constant hum of the highway that hangs in the air.

They should do the same study in East Providence.

Top of Neutaconkanut Hill, Plainfield St in Silver Lake

The bike path in east providence would never be used for a train.