Andy Nosal

. @ecorinews.bsky.social's Frank Carini tells the truth about Amazon.

Posting my #cat Beatrix

1 hour riding a bus in NJ: have been delayed passing cleanups of 2 separate wrecks, and one minor crash, observing every driver in traffic engaged with a phone except the ones engaged with 2

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, ever. (Or Claude and certainly not Grok)

You want efficient transit? The easy part is spending money to build and run it. The hard part is not having everything so hopelessly sprawled about that driving remains necessary for everyone. #RhodeIsland has the hard part in the bag but keeps choking on the easy part. motifri.com/free-range-r...

Only one component of this project is likely to measurably improve service from any rider's point of view: Connecting Exchange street to Gaspee st will shorten a few routes by several minutes.

Thought-provoking postcard maps of #walkable #Providence now on sale at Riff Raff Bookstore Bar Cafe! Mail some to your #urbanism friends, better yet mail them to the ones who need to learn...

Map postcards now available at the WaterFire Arts Center Store - @waterfireprov.bsky.social - Mail them to your #urbanism friends, better yet mail them to the unconverted. #walkable #bikebus #carfree

Hot Club is that bar where sooner or later you meet just about anyone who is anybody in Rhode Island. If you go more than once you are a regular! Go there tomorrow Tuesday July 21, 6pm. Check out the brand new 2 Feet 2 Bucks maps and posters - and buy some to benefit @pvdstreets.org !

OK, nowhere in the USA measures up to Europe. But is vacation travel via active transportation completely impossible here? It can be done in Rhode Island, a few transit rich cities... anyplace else? usa.streetsblog.org/2026/07/09/s...

Paper map users gain various perspectives on given territories by reading maps at different scales, with different editorial emphases. Adaptable functional awareness of the reality you inhabit is indispensable to personal autonomy. Don't surrender to One Map to Rule Us All.

Adler's Hardware on Wickenden St in #Providence #RhodeIsland always has just what you need including a set of these charming map postcards

My plan to re-use the Crook Point Bridge: 1. Remove the "Stuck up" part. Rehabilitate the remaining structure and deck it for bikes and people. Build a lightweight drawbridge span. Key link in low-stress bike route from downtown to East Providence. ecori.org/crook-point-...

There is no art like street art if the goal is to be seen by more eyeballs every day than if your painting were in a museum! And it's fun. We will see plenty on my Janes Walk, 10:30am Saturday May 2. Meet outside White Electric, 711 Westminster St. Providence #RhodeIsland

Street Art of the West and South Sides: Join my Jane's Walk May 2, 10:30am starting from White Electric on Westminster St. Providence. Blank walls break the walkable city- Let's see what's being done about that. Please share! ppsri.org/events/janes...

Statistics can leave out what's most important. Traffic casualties are easy to measure. But even while no one in the neighborhood is bleeding, "Parents don't let their kids play outside" constitutes 24/7/365 damage to everyone's well being. No dollar figure or statistic reflects that so 🤷‍♀️.

The drama, stress and especially expense of snowstorms are mostly on account of motor vehicles. Imagine how cheap and prompt cleanup could be if only sidewalks had to be done. Inexcusable that the city's efforts always worsen access for people who do not own a car yet pay no less in taxes.

Overlooked factor in the Driving After This Snowstorm Is The Worse Ever shambles: Everyone's car is a few feet longer and wider than the one they had last time it snowed this much and did not melt right away.

If sledding at Neutaconkanut Hill is unsafe, the job of the parks department is to landscape, gate and manage it so it can be used safely not just put up No Sledding signs and walk away.

Stormwater treatment would be a much smaller problem if not for excessive space devoted to cars. It's one of many cost burdens conveniently omitted from our deliberately obscure accounting of what actually gets spent to provide "Freeways" and "Free parking."

At a desert resort convention in Phoenix I floated up to the poolside bar alongside vacationing RI Secretary of State Susan Farmer and had a hi neighbor chat

If you can read this you probably consider yourself fully literate. But if like most people you think getting directions from your phone is the only map you need then map literacy is what you really need. Start by going to The Map Center and not just an online visit! www.mapcenter.com

Camera Werks on Hope Street in Providence is now among the retailers selling 2 Feet 2 Bucks postcard maps! See their collection of local artist greeting cards and buy the Delightful Sightseeing 8-pack - all 7 maps plus an extra Heart of Providence. thecamerawerks.com/index.html

Do you live in *Walkable City Providence* yet find it impractical to walk to where you need to go everyday? Whatever. The cheapest therapy is still to go out your door and take the longest walk you can. Take advantage of that. Everything you need to know is here: motifri.com/2-feet-2-buc...

Pawtucket #RhodeIsland, population density over 8,000/sq mi. puts forth a site plan for an all-city central High School that assumes every student and teacher will come and go by school bus or car. www.valleybreeze.com/news/board-a...

Dear folks who say "I would use transit if it went from my house to my job:" That could be easily arranged (the hard part is done) if you live and work in a red area. Everywhere else, the best you might do is park and ride into a red area. Everywhere else is hopelessly car dependent for now.

New 2 Feet 2 Bucks map: ❤️ of Providence! Buy it or buy all 7 @weirdpvd.bsky.social in downtown's landmark Arcade. Proving there's more to see in #RhodeIsand when you are on foot or a bike than when you're in a car.

Beatrix is throwing her best shade. #whiskerswednesday #cats

"Car-free tourism" grants that going by car is what's expected so let's call it "Truly-free tourism." Pick up Motif magazine to see my map of Bristol #RhodeIsland- The most spectacular authentic historic seaside New England destination you can bike or bus to. motifri.com/2-feet-2-buc...

If you have a striped beach rock on display, please prove your Ocean State #RhodeIsland bona fides by posting a picture of it in present situ. Cat optional. #rocks