Replacing a lead service line can be expensive, but Providence Water will share the cost (i.e. they’ll cover the cost of the part in the street up to the property line) and they offer a 10-year, zero-interest loan for the part on your property.

The wait list is long but it’s worth doing. Info here: https://provwater.com/water_quality/lead-center/wslinformation

All NSF 53 filters will filter lead. Doesn’t matter the brand as long as it has that label on it.

Source: Providence Water told me this when I learned I had a lead service line. I’ve since gotten it replaced and lead levels now test at zero.

The best clam chowder (and clam shack food in general) you can get year-round is at Blount’s in Warren. They do online ordering for takeout and they’re also on DoorDash. I recommend the 3 clam cakes & chowder special plus a seafood stuffie.

It wouldn’t make sense from an engineering standpoint to try to move the viaduct underground, but we can still easily cap the trenches between Orms and Smith, and between Atwells and Point. It could be done by selling air rights for some parts (similar to what Boston did over the Pike in Back Bay) and using the proceeds to build parks over the rest.

I don’t know. But sincerely, thanks for sticking with this inane thread and sharing the source of the inaccurate info. I’ve been following this project closely for the last couple years, so the February 2023 date made no sense to me, and this isn’t the first time I’ve seen Channel 10 bungle their facts.

Thank you for providing sources!

I think the issue is that you were misled by WJAR’s shoddy reporting. The Mass Transit magazine piece has more accurate wording:

> Early construction activity will take place intermittently at the station through February 2023.

Meaning the preliminary work was expected to be done in February. But that same article quotes the MBTA GM as saying:

> “We’re excited to see these upcoming station upgrades reach 100 percent design and look forward to acquiring the necessary construction funding to make these critical repairs and important accessibility improvements at South Attleboro so that we can return Commuter Rail service to the station”

Except they never announced when they’d be done, only that some preliminary work was starting. There is no timeline for reopening the station at this point. You can complain about the T’s numerous failures all you want, but you can’t fault them for not honoring a timeline that never existed.

The only reporting I can find says that they got $8 million for the demolition and early work, but that they have yet to secure the full $60 million in funding to complete the project: https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/mbta-plans-to-start-work-in-fall-on-south-attleboro-commuter-rail-station/article_ba52a6b1-a432-5e3c-9646-4033998a2eb3.html

If you have more recent/accurate info, please share.

There’s no timeline for reopening the station at this point.

“Early construction activity” is just part of the work that needs to be done. The funding hasn’t yet been established for the full scope of work. So there’s no timeline for reopening the station at this point.

It is, but trains from that station will only run once an hour in each direction. To be useful, local transit needs to run every 10-15 minutes.

Overall, probably not. There is a lot of redevelopment planned for the immediate area around the station, and those new units (plus existing housing in the immediate area of the station) will likely command higher rents/prices. But most of Pawtucket isn’t exactly walkable to the station, so I doubt it will have much of an impact to the city as a whole.

It’s new and in a different location slightly to the southwest, with access from Pine Street to the south and Barton St/Weeden St to the north. The official address is 300 Pine St, Pawtucket, RI 02860.

The old station would have been too expensive to clean up and reuse, plus it sat on a curve so it wouldn’t have been a good location for new high-level platforms.

So that residents of one of the densest (and poorest) areas of the state have walkable access to regional transportation that can bring them to work in Providence or Boston.

I’m not sure but my guess is the parking lot wont be done when the station opens. And from what I’ve heard it’s not going to be a big lot anyway, because the station is designed to serve the nearby area and folks arriving by bus (plus hopefully future transit-oriented development).

You’re probably smelling the asphalt plant on Allens Ave.

Eufy?

The solution to large trucks blocking streets to access loading docks is smaller trucks.

The maddening thing about I-95 in Connecticut is that there are actually 93 exits along the 111 miles between Rhode Island and New York. So they seem like milepost exits, but there’s really just that many of them.

Both of which are a mile away from this location, on the other side of a hill.

The key here is walkability; a walk to a grocery store that’s less than a mile away for thousands of people will make a bigger difference than you think.

Didn’t your mother teach you about wearing layers?

It probably doesn’t help that the article you linked conflates rotaries and roundabouts. There’s a difference.

It sounds like RIDOT actually wants to install a roundabout there, which is much safer than a rotary, and a much better idea.

It was further east of Rolfe Square but still off Park Ave, on a street that still bears the name “Station Street”. More info and photos on this page: https://sites.google.com/site/rhodeislandrailroads/home/east-providence-south/east-providence-north/pwb-route/main-line

What’s interesting about TF Green station is that it’s just south of the old Hillsgrove station. So it almost counts as restoring a useful commuter station, except that being close to the airport meant that there was never much density there to begin with.