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[Cotuit]

East of 95 Cranston is OK.

[Lone Ranger]

runawayjim, on Nov 19 2006, 12:49 AM, said:

you mean bigger than warwick?

Warwick has Pawtuxet.  That's one saving grace.  When we get the intermodal station built, that will be two.

[Recchia]

Lone Ranger, on Nov 20 2006, 05:50 PM, said:

Warwick has Pawtuxet.  That's one saving grace.  When we get the intermodal station built, that will be two.

Ehh, but Warwick has like 500 feet of Pawtuxet.  And I'm not so confident that what will be built around the train station will be any better than what Warwick has built in its past...

[MikeR]

Lone Ranger, on Nov 18 2006, 07:57 PM, said:

There is no such bleeping thing as zoning in Cranston.  It's like the city planners sat around a table looking over biiiig a map of the city with a bunch of tokens representing different types of development, carefully placing the tokens where they thought them appropriate.  And at the end of that laborious process, the planners said to each other, "That's good, we'll go with that."  And they went home for the evening.  That night, somebody came along and pounded heavily on the table, scattering the tokens pellmell across the city map.  Then the city planners came in the next morning and implemented exactly what they saw.

Cranston is a nightmare.  Beyond repair.

I would kinda agree with this statement.  I used to belong to a golf league that played at the Cranston Country Club weekly.  Traveling down Phenix Ave from I-295 was a tour of pell-mell single-family housing developments along a winding and narrow country road.  If you don't believe Phenix Ave can be dangerous, try driving it.  Incredibly winding and hilly.  Lots of cars on it.  It's tood bad zoning regulations allowed that much development in that area; it really ruined what could be a nice rural area.

Cranstton Country Club is nice though; one of the better golf courses you'll find.

[dgreco]

MikeR, on Nov 22 2006, 06:21 AM, said:

I would kinda agree with this statement.  I used to belong to a golf league that played at the Cranston Country Club weekly.  Traveling down Phenix Ave from I-295 was a tour of pell-mell single-family housing developments along a winding and narrow country road.  If you don't believe Phenix Ave can be dangerous, try driving it.  Incredibly winding and hilly.  Lots of cars on it.  It's tood bad zoning regulations allowed that much development in that area; it really ruined what could be a nice rural area.

Cranstton Country Club is nice though; one of the better golf courses you'll find.

the country club is really nice, Alpine estates is nice area.... but those don't really coem to mind when you think cranston.

[Dan]

dgreco, on Nov 22 2006, 08:21 AM, said:

the country club is really nice, Alpine estates is nice area.... but those don't really coem to mind when you think cranston.

I haven't been to that area since I lived in Phenix.  I'm glad the golf club is there, otherwise that land would definitely be MTV Cribs territory by now.

On the 10 interview Mario Hilario was on location in some McMansion cul-de-sac, and I'm thinking "whats so great or uniquely-Cranston about that place?"  Go to Knightsville where there's some shops and some people walking around.

I actually have to go to Cranston now, right by the castle on Pontiac Ave.  What a drag!      I hope Napolitano's reopened - they had awesome grinders and soups but they were closed last time I was down.

[gregw]

There is no way that Cranston should be on that list of worst places to live. The author/editor probably needed to make the list geographically diverse and arbitrarily picked Cranston as a negative place for either RI or New England.