Government

Noise Project 2022 mayoral and City Council election endorsements

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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

‘Eliminating’ noise without REDUCING it: PVD Planning Dept’s Dike Street project

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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 — ongoing noise issues there.

Page 22 of 2016 PVD Planning Dept. report on stakeholder meeting for Dike Street area, advocating the formation of a group to resolve noise-related issues

Note former Ward 15 City Council member and current Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos facing the camera at the table in the foreground