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.

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Right, because the rents they were paying elsewhere are magically going to go down because they found somewhere else to live /s

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The median income in Providence is less than 30K/yr.

Yes, they do stay empty.

Things like this are not built because units get filled. They get built so they are hard assets on somebody's books. They get built because they're expensive tax write-offs that can be used as a 30-year asset class. They get built due to real estate speculation. None of those reasons provide any real benefit to anybody except the developers and the construction unions.

Considering that public land is being used here, there should be measurable public benefit for any development that occurs on it.

Roads are for cars, damnit! I need to be able to drive my rust bucket Honda Civic around all parts of downtown while blasting my shitty music so that the world knows how fucking cool I am and how big my d*ck is

As a side note to this - it’s my opinion that a more efficient route would utilize sections of Route 6 and I-195… however, coordinating with state and federal agencies for this would probably be a nightmare lol

The trouble with this is that many sections of that line are just barely above sea level right now. Any sort of long-term investment in reopening the corridor as a rail line would be at risk due to sea level rise.

We make some important stuff here, like nuclear submarines.

So I'd like to point fingers at the state leadership for a minute.

Last year, the state made some sort of financial agreement with the Nylo Hotel in Warwick to provide temporary shelter for some of the state's homeless. Between the time that agreement was made and the start of this year's winter, what did the state do? What did the housing secretary do? What did the governor do? What did anybody do?

Nothing.

We knew this was a problem a year ago, and it's been a problem for years before that. But anybody in a position of power who could do anything about it did nothing. And then we're all supposed to be fucking shocked when a half-assed plan to house the homeless in the Armory backfires and pisses off the local residents.

I found it absolutely hilarious when I heard this story. Remember when the homeless and homeless advocates were camping out on the state house lawn? Not that long ago. There was a church group that had offered to provide port-a-potties to the protestors, but the state did not allow them to bring them in. And guess what? (surprised Pikachu face meme) State workers got all huffy that someone took a dump on the state house lawn? BIG FUCKING SURPRISE THERE.

The level of ineptitude in our own government never ceases to amaze me.

You should try going back to NY

Idk needs more heroin needles and people getting stabbed but otherwise well done

Biological man means that you have XY chromosome pairings, testes, a penis, and a prostate.

Biological woman means that you have XX chromosome pairings, ovaries, uterus, vulva, vagina, clitoris, etc.

To say that there’s “no such thing as a ‘biological man’” is just… not rooted in reality. Yes there is. Just as there are biological women. Chromosomes matter. Sex traits matter. Being a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’ is not a social category - it comes down to genetic expressions of physical characteristics. Your DNA, chromosome pairings, and genetic traits make up your physical vessel. That isn’t a ‘social construct’ or whatever you’d want to call it.

I’m not a “transphobic” person, either. I’ve met and got along with plenty of people who identify with being transgender. And you know why? Because they agree with what I’ve laid out.

People like you are so wrapped up in virtue signaling and so-called social justice that you have lost track of what the real world actually is. Best of luck to you out there. Crack open an anatomy book some time and maybe some books that explain puberty - you may learn something.

Yeah, totally not buying that argument.

There would be a direct benefit to Providence residents to build straight-up affordable units near the city center/transit hub.

Adding luxury apartments to a city where the median income is $24,891 does not increase the housing supply. Sorry, but no.

Yeah, but do you actually care what cis-women want?

There are plenty of cis-women out there who don't want biological men in their bathrooms. What about them? Are you advocating for denying women their own private, intimate space?

Jader Troe's loading dock at 8pm.