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[Cotuit]

Providence Business News article about 195 relocation work.

Another Providence Business News article about RIDoT and RIPTA teaming up to get cars off the road to relieve congestion in relation to the the 195 work.

[EPBOY]

Cotuit, on May 16 2005, 04:34 PM, said:

Providence Business News article about 195 relocation work.

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"The project is slated for completion some time in 2011 or 2012."  

I hope that is including the demo of the old highway!  I don't think the old I-195 has another 6 years of life left in it!  Have you ever seen the underside of it?  Pretty scary!  I get nervous every time I'm under the highway and have to wait for the light on Wickenden street to turn.

[Cotuit]

Yes, I'm pretty sure 2011-2012 is when land becomes available. The highway will actually be opening in stages as the bridge and the connection to Route 95 is completed.

[EPBOY]

Washington Bridge Replacement slideshows from RIDOT here    and  here.  

195 Relo slideshow from RIDOT here.

Edited by EPBOY, 20 May 2005 - 05:16 AM.

[kinematix]

EPBOY,

I'm wondering how you got the following picture:



I tried to replicate the same pic on the website you posted and I can't figure out how to zoom in as far as you got or get to the same location without cutting and pasting images together.
Any tips?

[EPBOY]

kinematix, on May 23 2005, 02:54 PM, said:

EPBOY,

I'm wondering how you got the following picture:
...
Any tips?

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Piece of cake, kinematix!  Glad to be able to help.  

OK, when you get to http://www.telecamsy....com/providence, you see the 5 panel panaramic hourly shot.  JUST ABOVE that, you will see "Six More Views From The Fleet Center".  Click on it, then any of the thumbnails you see and you will see the same angles and zooms as the photos I posted.

Edited by EPBOY, 23 May 2005 - 06:37 PM.

[cms821]

Wonder if they will be able to boost the speed limit on the new 195 to 55 or 60... Anyone got some info on this?

[EPBOY]

Anyone interested in the history of I-195?  (Yes, I am truly a geek!)

Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) is at Bostonroads.com

including this preconstruction rendering from 1947 of a proposal for the part of the highway that was to be elevated over downtown/Dyer St..  

Edited by EPBOY, 24 July 2005 - 01:14 PM.

[Recchia]

  Elevated highways...

[Cotuit]

I just was down at the river having lunch (had to get out of the office today). I noticed there are cranes on either side of the river outside the Hurricane Barrier. Is our bridge finally rising?

[EPBOY]

Cotuit, on Aug 11 2005, 12:23 PM, said:

I just was down at the river having lunch (had to get out of the office today). I noticed there are cranes on either side of the river outside the Hurricane Barrier. Is our bridge finally rising?

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They must be preparing for the arrival of the bridge in 2006.

According to the PROJO artical from last January, it's gonna come floating up the bay!

"James R. Caroselli, the Rhode Island DOT's chief civil engineer, said the steel parts National Eastern is making will be trucked to Quonset Point, North Kingstown, in early 2006, and assembled into the bridge, probably on a pair of barges linked together.

Then, with the bridge on top, the barges will be towed up Narragansett Bay to Providence for the installation.

It should be quite a show. "You'll look out your window and see a bridge floating past your house"

[Cotuit]

Oh that sounds like fun. The cranes must just be for support structures then.

[Frankie811]

Cotuit, on Aug 11 2005, 12:23 PM, said:

I just was down at the river having lunch (had to get out of the office today). I noticed there are cranes on either side of the river outside the Hurricane Barrier. Is our bridge finally rising?

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Yeah, but you must remember that they are also doing work down there for the Narragansett Bay Commission's big dig project, so it might get a little crowded down there  

[ruchele]

Cotuit, on Nov 17 2003, 08:29 PM, said:

Route 195 Relocation Project



Washington Bridge Linear Park

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I rode the East Bay Bike Path last weekend-  On the bulletin boards along the path, there  were arial shots of what the new "Linear park" on the Washington Bridge is supposed to look like.  
Frankly, in those shots, it looked much less grand than the pics above-  more like just a one-lane wide car-free zone next to the 6 or so lanes of 195 traffic (that's what's right on the other side of the black fence you can see above).  Yes, an improvement over the exisiting sidewalk, and yes, a great connection of the Bikepath into Providence, but still kind of bleak.  I hope they plan for a lot of landscaping along it to provide some shade and mitigate the noise and stink of the traffic.  

Anyone know if there are landscape designers involved in this project, and who?

Edited by ruchele, 11 August 2005 - 06:13 PM.

[Cotuit]

Oh no, I hope this is being scaled back.

[Recchia]

I know the exact picture you're talking about ruchele (I used it at bike to work day last summer).  I think they just left out a lot of detail in that rendering, whatever used to be on their website should still be the plan.  As far as landscaping goes, they almost always have either a Landscape Architect as part of the contract, or they use their in-house Lanscape Architecture section.  Not sure about landscaping on the bridge though...

[ruchele]

Recchia, on Aug 12 2005, 06:19 AM, said:

As far as landscaping goes, they almost always have either a Landscape Architect as part of the contract, or they use their in-house Lanscape Architecture section. 

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So I guess my follow-up question is about RIDOT's Landscape Arch. department.  How good are they?  Can we trust them to make the pedestrian/bike bridge as nice as it should be?

Edited by ruchele, 12 August 2005 - 07:36 AM.

[Cotuit]

The DOTs Washington Bridge Linear Park website still shows the highly decorative park renderings. Also, Newport Collaborative is credited as the architect.

[Recchia]

Cotuit, on Aug 12 2005, 09:49 AM, said:

The DOTs Washington Bridge Linear Park website still shows the highly decorative park renderings. Also, Newport Collaborative is credited as the architect.

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Newport Collaborative does excellent work.  And RIDOT's internal landscape architecture section is one of the best sections there.

[ruchele]

Yeah, I just took another look at the site and was relieved to see Newport Collaborative there.

Edited by ruchele, 12 August 2005 - 08:59 AM.