2024 RI Assembly Candidate Survey
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Government
Noise report cards for Boston neighborhoods
By Kevin Hartnett (Boston Globe, Oct. 23, 2016) — Noise is an inconvenience of city living. Could it also hurt your health? Erica Walker, a doctoral student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, set out to help answer that question. For a year, she measured noise levels in 400 locations in Boston … Read more
Leafblower letter to policymakers
Below is a sample letter that Providence / RI residents can send to local and state policymakers, asking themto sponsor or support legislation and policies to limit the adverse health and environmental effects of gas-powered leafblowers and other landscaping tools. Subject line (if e-mail): Please take action to regulate leafblowers Dear [Mayor / City Councilmember … Read more
2022 Primary Election Endorsements
The Noise Project sent a two-page survey regarding noise issues to all three candidates for Providence mayor, as well as all of the ballot-qualified candidates for City Council (including incumbents / those running unopposed). Below are our endorsements in the primary election. After much deliberation, we split our endorsement for mayor between City Council member Nirva LaFortune and … Read more
Noise Project letter to Mayor Elorza
Noise Project letter to Mayor Jorge Elorza* * Mayor Elorza never responded to or even acknowledged our letter.
Goncalves 2022–2023 Quality of Life Plan
‘Eliminating’ Noise Without Reducing It: The Planning Department’s Dike Street project
In May 2016, the Providence Planning Department convened a group of neighborhood stakeholders to discuss plans to upgrade the infrastructure around what it refers to as the “Dike Street area” — the bathtub-shaped area south of Olneyville Square bounded by Plainfield / Westminster Street and Route 6.
One of the issues that stakeholders highlighted was noise levels in the area (see page 22 of the Planning Dept. report on the meeting below). In 2022, the department began to formally implement its plan for the Dike Street area, without any mention of — much less effort to address — the ongoing noise issues there.
