No, they don't have liability insurance. It's a state park. You use it at your own discretion.

The insurance state parks carry is for negligent upkeep - a bridge collapsing, a bear that was reported dangerous being allowed to continue hanging in campground ect. It is not because someone might try to sue for getting injured.

Glad you've literally never done a physical sport because you'd know how things work. Lol.

Plenty of public dirt bike courses that are unmonitored. Show me the lawsuits. Otherwise you are full of shit.

You can start down south and work your way up. Show me the rider being injured and suing the municipality. Otherwise...looks like I know what Im talking about

Because thats how we have dealt with other issues, right? Trinity skate park was bought by a skate club right?

Real solutions aren't just bitching about how you don't like seeing bikes and trying to ban them.

Lol, no that isn't the point of riding them on the street. If you weren't an ignorant fuck you'd know that those bikes can be registered (and often the hordes you see have a mix of legal and illegal bikes).

Tell me again how you know better than historical fact. Skateboarding caused issues, build a park and suddenly no issue. Legal graffiti parks? Suddenly less vandalism.

Cities with spaces to ride legally don't deal with people riding in their streets lol. Please be more of a NIMBY

And - skateboarding fell out of fashion? How come skateparks are frequently filled and looking for more space???

Lie more. Just say you want to hit people on their dirt bike because you have no self control.

You clearly have never gone to a state park.

Whose getting sued when you break your leg in yellowstone? Or at Lincoln state woods?

Because the state isn't, lol.

Lol, insurance for what exactly? Using state land? Or for a privately owned vehicle? Because I don't see tax payer dollars going to a magical insurance fund for boating on state lands. The individual is responsible for that.

Try harder.

Skateboarding used to be problematic when they had nowhere to skate, give them a space and magically skaters were less of a problem.

Wonder why they haven't come up with a similar solution for ATVs and dirt bikes. Legal riding spaces aren't too crazy of a concept, don't know why everyone immediately jumps to banning the sale of them.

Shit, even for things like graffiti having legal spaces to do it reduce the illegal stuff significantly.

Wonder which one of the reps who pushed these bills forward owns liquor stores or has stakes in distribution companies.

What possible good reason to further restrict businesses that are actually thriving in RI? Other than to line some old timers pockets because they can't adapt.

So you are saying they didn't force Far West out (because they moved to New Orleans, not got kicked out) and you infact don't know what you are talking about?

Theres enough issues at room & works you don't have to make things up lol.

The patio? You mean the entire indoor space that they were free to use (and did use)? Or the little outdoor space that they were also allowed to use?

Except if you read the article you would see that it is not being investigated as such.

Good job reading past the headline and making assumptions though!

Well considering it was written on the brick and then attempted to be scrubbed off it's unlikely the hate crime would stick - hence them mentioning in the article it was most likely scrubbed off to avoid hate crime charges (which is a surprisingly amount of foresight for neo nazis honestly).

And the cops were contacted, but shockingly they haven't made any arrests. Even though members of the (presumed) same group have made appearances throughout the city since then.

They will not investigate the vandalism. They will take the report and nothing will come of it. It's an insurance claim.

Do you also think the police investigate every instance of graffiti?

They don't do anything regardless of if they are contacted. You like doing tasks for no reason at all? Contact the police and waste your time for them to do nothing?

If you think they would open an investigation into what is considered petty vandalism you've really got a fantasy view of the police.

Do you think the police would dedicate any time to a broken window investigation with no camera footage? Even with a fairly good image of the person they would do next to nothing.

Unless you need a police report to file an insurance claim why would you call them in this scenario?

Ah yes, saying people won't have places to live if we make landlords follow RULES! Such a reasonable and well thought out take. Regulations exist in most markets, and in vital industries (like housing) there are often many. I'm sure you know this if you keep your apartment up to code.

God forbid we keep them from raising rent multiple times in a year, such a heinous restriction!

120 days before making someone homeless is such a burden! How do all the other states with similar time frames survive???

You are totally right, landlords do abuse the court systems all the time.

Woe is you, your investment isn't giving you the returns you want because you can't pillage someone else's labor through the threat of homelessness. Such hardships. Maybe get a real job???

LOL so one time during a world wide pandemic some tenants were able to manipulate the laws to their advantage - all landlords are now victims and basically POOR!!!

You decided to make an investment and sometimes those don't pan out, a pandemic isn't something most people plan for but you don't get guaranteed returns just because you are using an essential good as your investment.

Gas and electric have to go through the courts to raise rates. Maybe landlords should have to prove that their property actually increased in value before raising prices, show you need the funds to do repairs and maybe we can talk.

Found the landlord.

There is a housing shortage. There is no problem with people finding people to rent their properties.

They shouldn't be allowed to change rent prices more than once a year. Full stop. You set a price and its locked in. Its called regulations. Gas stations can only change their prices once a day. Regulations exist to keep people from manipulating the markets.

The landlord already has enough protections and rental agencies have taken advantage of lack of regulations to the extent that they need to be reeled back into reality.

Many other states successfully require more than 30 days. None of these are outlandish or brand new ideas. They have been done elsewhere and low and behold - rentals are still ongoing there!

Next you'll say not letting them charge an application fee is wrong because why shouldn't they be allowed to profit off of people they'll never do business with?

Leases aren't used in many rental cases. If a property has a price increase in January and someone moves out in June you can't then increase the rent again for the next tenant until the following January.

One sided? You mean giving tenants protections against landlords deciding to raise rent within 30 days and if you don't agree you need to be out by then?

It'll pass and the fact that you are shilling for landlords says a lot about you.

Literally none of these should have problems being passed. If any don't pass its clear the political arm of RI is bought and paid for.

Lol whatever you say. Keep complaining about those illegal tailpipes, see where that gets you.

"back to doing work that helps people" LOL like the police have ever helped anyone.

But lets have them pull over more people because clearly more police interaction is the solution to noise pollution .

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.113-a34

William Luxford, medical director of the House Ear Clinic of St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles, points out one piece of good news: “It’s true that continuous noise exposure will lead to the continuation of hearing loss, but as soon as the exposure is stopped, the hearing loss stops. So a change in environment can improve a person’s hearing health.”

Continued exposure. An illegally modified tailpipe isn't a continued exposure.

Your body can't tell the difference between sounds but the ability to stop one via making a complaint with the license plate number and not having any recourse means the low constant hum is going to be more problematic.

Once an hour would be considered consistent. Again, read up on how long damage takes to occur. Noise happens, its the constant or consistent sound that needs to be dealt with.

Is your solution having more police or is there some magic solution to enforcing a law already on the book?

Ok, let me explain how you can look at data and make a conclusion - You can look at research showing that low level decibel levels cause health issues, the article I sent you shows how low exactly it can get and still cause problems.

If the sound is constant it will always be causing problems where as a single loud noise is intermittent. The frequency alone means things like illegal mufflers are less polluting than a highway full of many vehicles.

A low constant hum can cause problems and has no protections against through enforcement. Meaning it causes more health problems. A muffler ranges from 100-120 decibels, that takes 5+ minutes to cause damage. I doubt the car is revving their engine in front of your house for that long and if so its probably your neighbor.

Why are you trying to solve a problem that already has a solution? Enforcement is a police issue and cops in Providence are notoriously bad at their job.

As for fully capping the highway that sounds like a fantasy with how RI invests in infrastructure - noise barriers work well and you cut a huge chunk of the noise even without the full enclosure. Something about the way they are shaped keeps the sound from escaping. Significantly cheaper because you don't need them to be as robust too.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022460X06000927

Shows that road traffic exceeding 60 decibels cause health concerns. Other research papers (idk which ones, google probably has it) give you break downs of how long it takes for hearing damage based on decibel levels. Highways average at like 75db last I checked.

Straight pipes are loud but at around 100 decibels it would still take something like 5 (maybe 10?) minutes to cause hearing damage. You'll be able to hear it for a while after it moves away if it's putting out that much sound but the sound levels drop as it moves, meaning more time before damage occurs.

Also by capping do you mean just putting up sound barriers around the highway or are we talking a sort of fully enclosed system?