Recently GrowSmart RI in Providence hosted a workshop entitled, “Alternative Tools for Encouraging Alternative Transportation”. Four presenters with four different perspectives gathered, including Alex Ellis, a Providence Town Planner, Vin Scorziello, a local businessman, Yarrow Thorne director of Avenue Concepts, and yours truly from Bike Newport and the RI Waves campaign. The topics ranged from… read more
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Rhode Island Pushes for Safer Streets with Passage of RI Waves Resolution
(Providence, RI) — Rhode Island lawmakers passed a resolution Wednesday to publicly support a statewide effort to promote a friendly, crash-preventing gesture among all road users. Introduced by Representative Lauren Carson (RI House District 75), the resolution came at the request of RI Waves organizers. RI Waves is a video, outdoor, print, and social media… read more
RI Waves Webinar
I recently hosted the second RI Waves webinar to promote safer streets across our ‘Little Rhody’. Joining me were Bike Newport’s executive director, Bari Freeman, and the Jai CG creative director, Joe Phommasith. The focus of this webinar was to educate representatives from RI municipalities on all of the resources available from RI Waves to… read more
RI Waves in the Community
What an amazing event at the Greenwich Village Apartments in Warwick this week! The Warwick PD, led by Sgt. Robert Hart, held a traffic safety discussion with residents of this apartment complex where a pedestrian was killed late last year crossing at the traffic light. Sgt Hart heard how the new modifications to the traffic… read more
Spreading RI Waves in Cranston
I just met a lovely woman named Robin at the Cranston Family Center. Her colleague Grace Swinski reached out to RI Waves and offered to distribute RI Waves bumper stickers and pins to their clients. This is great – they are helping to get the word out across Rhode Island to Stop, Look and Wave… read more
Get Ready for “Rhode Island Waves”
Newport Waves is Going Statewide The people of Newport, RI, use an everyday friendly gesture to address a very serious problem. It’s called the Newport Wave and it’s designed to save lives and now it’s going statewide. The Newport Wave was introduced in 2015 after three pedestrians lost their lives on the city’s streets in… read more