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Old 11-24-2015, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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I was last through there (briefly and very early in the morning) on November 4; it's still going. The roadway is still closed, so the southbound R Line drops off on Stillman Street, about a 500 foot walk to the station. At least the pedestrian plaza west of the building is open again, so you don't have to walk around the American Express building to get in.
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Old 11-24-2015, 08:08 AM
 
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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Weekly project update from RIDOT - http://www.dot.ri.gov/projectupdates...LETTER.BLOCK23
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Old 11-24-2015, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Earth, a nice neighborhood in the Milky Way
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I was last through there (briefly and very early in the morning) on November 4; it's still going. The roadway is still closed, so the southbound R Line drops off on Stillman Street, about a 500 foot walk to the station. At least the pedestrian plaza west of the building is open again, so you don't have to walk around the American Express building to get in.
I was there yesterday. Cars apparently have limited access now, as I have seen cars using Railroad Street. There is not yet a place for a car to pull over and pick passengers up.

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Thanks for the link. I had not spotted that. That confirms that Railroad Street is open, albeit intermittently.
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Old 11-24-2015, 11:31 AM
 
Location: College Hill
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I'm wondering, apart from fixing leaks, is there any improvement being done to make this Brutalist horror story less offensive?

Yesterday morning it was closed, this morning it was open...



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Old 11-24-2015, 02:31 PM
 
Location: Earth, a nice neighborhood in the Milky Way
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^Ha ha. Your deep and abiding love of this building is duly noted. I agree that we deserve better. But in the grand scheme of things, it is neither the best nor the worst piece of architecture in the city.
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Old 11-27-2015, 05:57 PM
 
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Until Connecticut gets their act together and fixes their track, Amtrak is completely off my radar screen. NY-DC by rail is fine. BOS-NY is awful. I should be able to take high speed rail to DC or Philly. I have to fly instead.
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Old 03-25-2016, 09:40 PM
 
Location: Earth, a nice neighborhood in the Milky Way
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Default Peter Alviti channels his inner George W. Bush

So, they held a little shindig to celebrate the "near-completion" of the work at Providence Station. I wonder if they hung up a "Mission Accomplished" banner and had Peter Alviti arrive by Navy S-3B Viking.

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Renovations to the Providence train station are almost complete and elected leaders gathered outside the station Friday morning to celebrate the work while highlighting plans for additional improvements.
I was at the station today. They still have temporary, cobbled together 2x4 guard rails keeping people from falling from the plaza down into the garage below; the covered bike racks are fenced in with construction fencing; they still have big steel plates covering holes they recently cut into the freshly paved roads in an example of exceedingly poor planning...

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Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti Jr. said the station work "marks another project that the [DOT] has completed ahead of schedule and under budget."
Say what Peter? You know it's not done yet, right? If it's "completed ahead of schedule and under budget," then why isn't it done in time for this celebration??? You're kidding, right?

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As for whether it was done ahead of schedule, a year ago the DOT announced that the project was expected to be finished by May.
St. Martin said a few remaining pieces of the project, including areas where marked off by orange pylons and temporary wooden structures, would be done by June, but the area had been opened "for beneficial use" in December, qualifying it as "ahead of schedule."
Ridiculous. Want people to believe what you say? Don't tell a bald-faced lie, and then offer a flimsy attempt at spinning it into the truth. Raimondo ought to call Alviti front and center and chew him a new one for embarrassing her.

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Old 03-27-2016, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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"Complete" must mean "you can drive through there again."
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