State and local planners hope to bring back streetcar lines as part of a comprehensive plan to modernize the public transit system for Providence and surrounding communities. The final version of the plan, called the Providence Metropolitan Transit Enhancement Study, will be released tomorrow. In addition to improving the bus system and increasing the number …
The Projo’s reporting on the proposal for a Ferris-wheel-ish parking structure on Weybosset St: PROVIDENCE — A Florida company is proposing what may soon be the strangest part of the Providence skyline: a pair of 13-story, translucent parking towers that operate like Ferris wheels, loading cars at the ground level and then moving them high …
Former Vice President Al Gore and wife Tipper heroically took public transportation to the Nobel ceremony in Oslo, snubbing the gas-obliterating, planet-killing motorcade that all the other brainiacs had no problem taking, because they hate Earth. If he really wanted to impress people, he’d have ridden a bike, and worn all those tight neon pants, …