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[mental757]

(Another) PROJO (article):  "R.I.’s Iway: Final stretch to open this week"

http://www.projo.com...28.3b3cdec.html

[mental757]

Point Street Exit from 95N opened last night.

PROJO:  "The Rhode Island Department of Transportation opens another Route 95 exit"

http://www.projo.com...19.37d09f9.html

[BBascule]

Well - my office overlooks the old 195/Providence River Bridge - and it is completely devoid of cars this morning (with the exception of one or two contractor vehicles). Amazing what a difference it makes. Now we're just waiting for the Great Wall of Providence to finally come down.

[frymasterspeck]

We were on our way to the Scurv last night, and we took a little side trip over the bridge to the Warren Avenue exit, turned around and came back over that piece of crap road for the last, last, last time. I still remember my first time driving that wretched turd of super-slab in, oh, 1986, and thinking "Jeez, this is like the (old) Hutch and the (pre-collapse) Westside Highway had a horrible love-child."

Be gone, you foul and heartless river of steel and concrete
Divide us no more from ourselves
You convey us only into the past
and the past is not our destination

Edited by frymasterspeck, 22 October 2009 - 08:41 AM.

[Frankie811]

From the projo blog



Query: Do you have a good view of Rt. 195 changes?

Do you have a bird's-eye of the changing Providence landscape with the relocation of the highway?

If you are wiling to be interviewed for a story or video, drop us an e-mail.

newsphotos@projo.com

[09/21/38]

Noticed that the street lights are still on the old highway.  Please turn off now that the IWAY is open in all directions.  Also please knock down the old Shooters Building.  It is now an eyesore.

[Frankie811]

09/21/38, on 03 November 2009 - 09:45 AM, said:

Also please knock down the old Shooters Building.  It is now an eyesore.

Providence weighs rezoning Shooters property

The future of the former Shooters Waterfront Cafe, a notorious Fox Point nightclub now owned by the state, remains in limbo as the state still has not put the derelict property up for sale.

http://www.projo.com...29.2e5fdf9.html

[Frankie811]

The City Plan Commission voted on Tuesday evening to recommend excluding residential development -- such as a hotel or condominium complex -- on the former Shooter's Waterfront Cafe property.

http://newsblog.proj...mmission-4.html

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Rte. 195 land fate still hazy
"

http://www.projo.com...33.3a6351a.html

[mental757]

PROJO:  "State subdivides land reclaimed from highway"

http://www.projo.com...31.3b5a5ab.html

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Route 195 exit to be relocated"

http://www.projo.com...13.33d7d6f.html

[mental757]

PROJO:  "R.I. DOT says highway changes ahead in Providence"

http://www.projo.com...v8.1ebd75a.html