Looked better back then

The old Sunoco station is such a waste of prime retail space in the heart of a historic village.

Bring back the streetcars

I would love to see the streetcar network revitalized. In my opinion, a light rail network powered by solar energy with intermediate bus service would be ideal for managing the public transportation needs of Rhode Island.

Decline of civilization in one pic

They really fucked that up

I agree. We even had trolly cars

This reminds me of a 100 year old man whom I met on Academy Ave in Providence (around Elmhurst). He told me his father built the house where he lives and that when he was a kid you couldn’t see the next house. When the mail came, especially on winter, they would leave the mail in a mailbox at the beginning of the street. It wouldn’t go home by home because the wheels of the horse carriage would get stuck in the mud. Love this kind of stuff

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Ikr? This one really stings: look at all that housing

And worse: public transport exchanged for environmentally-disastrous gas station and private cars 😣

That garage is still in business and employs great people!

I don't understand all of the negativity in these comments. I live in the village (you can actually see my house in this photo). It is a great place, just cause the old image has more houses in it's frame doesn't mean anything. People are so jaded.

same with the bank next door that has an unnecessarily huge parking lot

They got rid of them because car companies bought them out, ran them into the ground until nobody used them, then dismantled them

I assume "now" is a relative term considering the gas prices at that Sunoco station lol. ($2.39/gal if you zoom in)

It's worse than 2017 now, the tree in front of the coffee shop had to be removed. 😫

You can take a bus there instead of the trolley.. it comes every 45-60 minutes. 😪

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make pawtuxet great again.

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United Electric Railways

>The United Electric Railways Company (UER) was the Providence-based operator of the system of interurban streetcars, trolleybuses, and trolley freight in the state of Rhode Island in the early- to mid-twentieth century. The UER was chartered in 1919, after the previous operator of the streetcar, the Rhode Island Company, went into temporary receivership. The company was placed under the control of the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission upon inception, in an effort to limit the impact to service in the event of financial difficulties.

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The R-Line should be an electric tram and there should be a matching east-west R-Line that goes from the Hartford section of Providence through Olneyville, down Broadway, through downtown, then using the transit tunnel and continuing through Wayland Square over the Henderson Bridge to East Providence. In real dollars it would be really expensive but the benefits would be huge.

Something that wouldn't be nearly as ambitious or expensive would be bus lanes, especially for the R Line on North Main Street. I hate that a bus full of people is subject to traffic delays from congestion caused mostly by single occupancy vehicles. We also need bus lanes on Charles Street at least from Orms Street to Silver Spring.

Yeah, fuck public transit and bicycles. This was definitely the right call...

You must not have gotten the memo, every cultural development that people don't like was a conspiracy

Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong - the business has a great reputation in the village!

The building and giant empty parking lot are just extremely unattractive, especially in the heart of a historic village.

Isn’t this a prostitution street now?

Maybe some more foliage could be added to help curb the harsh parking lot and such. That business has been there for a long time, my father's first job was at that garage. In my mind, it's a staple in the village.

The top is what folks call a "15 minute city" - there's walkability and community. The bottom is what folks call "freedom" - where you must have a vehicle to get basic groceries.