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  Rhode Island State Highway 37 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhode Island State Highway 37 is a numbered State Highway running 2.3 miles in Rhode Island.
RI 37 was part of the first plan for a proposed Interstate 895 that would've served as an eastern beltway around Providence.
RI 37 was also studied as a possible route for a proposed Interstate 84 that would've connected Providence with Hartford, Connecticut.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhode_Island_State_Highway_37   (174 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
RHODE ISLAND, in full, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the New England states of the U.S., bordered on the N and E by Massachusetts, on the S by Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound (arms of the Atlantic Ocean), and on the W by Connecticut.
Rhode Island is governed under a constitution adopted in 1842, as amended; this instrument replaced a colonial charter of 1663.
Rhode Island’s highest tribunal, the supreme court, is made up of a chief justice and four associate justices, all chosen for life by the state legislature.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/rhodeisland.html   (3488 words)

  
 Rhode Island State Highway 107 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhode Island State Highway 107 is a numbered State Highway running 3.5 miles in Rhode Island.
Note: This State highway is one of two (RI 96 and RI 107) whose Rhode Island sections never leave Burrillville.
Signage clearly shows RI 107's current terminus to be at Victory Highway, which is an old alignment of RI 102.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhode_Island_State_Highway_107   (226 words)

  
 Rhode Island
Rhode Island's Families Reap Benefits of Deficit Reduction: Public debt is on track to be $2.4 trillion lower in 2000 than was projected in 1993.
Rhode Island received $3.7 million in 1999 to help 2,210 dislocated workers get the training and reemployment services they need to return to work as quickly as possible.
In Rhode Island in 1998, 98% of two-year olds received the vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis; 96% received the vaccine for polio; 96% received the vaccine for measles, and 97% received the vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae B, the bacteria causing a form of meningitis.
clinton4.nara.gov /WH/Accomplishments/states/Rhode_Island.html   (2581 words)

  
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Vehicle travel in Rhode Island increased by 16 percent between 1990 and 2002, from seven billion vehicle miles of travel (VMT) to 8.1 billion VMT, while lane mileage on Rhode Island's interstates and highways increased by two percent from 1990 to 2002.
Approximately 37 percent of Rhode Island's urban highways were congested in 2002, the latest year for which data is available, carrying traffic volumes that resulted in significant rush hour delays.
Urban traffic congestion in Rhode Island has increased significantly since 1995, when 30 percent of the state's urban highways were considered congested.
www.tripnet.org /state/RhodeIslandPR101404.htm   (592 words)

  
 From Hartford to Providence
The state's 1953 long-range expressway plan, calling for US 6 to be upgraded from Manchester to the Rhode Island state line, is the first mention I've seen of a planned expressway in the area.
The two sections of I-84 already built toward Rhode Island were renumbered as well: in Manchester, I-384 was created, and in Willimantic, US 6 was routed onto the former I-84 expressway.
The state applied for a permit in 1979, and was notified in 1989 (yes, 10 years later) that the Corps would deny the permit.
www.kurumi.com /roads/ct/harttoprov.html   (2562 words)

  
 News Briefs
State government should work cooperatively with local communities as well as Chambers of Commerce and not-for-profit economic development corporations to direct appropriate economic growth to well-defined urban, town, and village centers and away from our historic farmlands and forests.
This is too low in state government’s organizational structure for Statewide Planning to coordinate growth planning initiatives that require the cooperation of multiple state departments and agencies.
Rhode Island is in the midst of a housing crisis.
www.growsmartri.com /briefingbook2.html   (5294 words)

  
 RI Chapter Sierra Club - Transportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The State's overall development strategy is based on preserving and developing cities and villages while maintaining Rhode Island's special sense of place.
If the State locates more agencies in a suburban style park with limited transit, Rhode Island's trend toward more workers traveling alone in a car to work will be reinforced.
Rhode Island's bridges are ranked 48th worst in the country.
www.sierraclubri.org /transportation   (3031 words)

  
 Yankee Magazine - The Fairest of Them All: Leaves, Views, and Other Surprises in Little Rhody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After all, the entire state is only 37 miles wide and 48 miles long, and much of that is given over to coastline -- 460 miles of it, with literally dozens of public beaches.
The area around Foster and Scituate, Rhode Island, is gentle, rural, and not at all touristy.
The surf slaps the rocky base of the walkway, sending fountains of salt spray into the air to be caught briefly on the wind and gently sprinkled onto the thickening hedgerows of beach plums that gird parts of the meandering path.
www.yankeemagazine.com /foliage/tourri.php   (2935 words)

  
 SUBCHAPTER T: RHODE ISLAND
(f) There are no Rhode Island laws that generally interfere with the achievement of the purposes and requirements of the Act and which must be superseded and preempted pursuant to Section 504(g).
Some Rhode Island laws may in an individual situation interfere with the achievement of the purposes and requirements of the Act and may be preempted and superseded with respect to the performance standards of Secs.
The permit issued by the Secretary shall incorporate the requirements of the Rhode Island Historical Zoning Act of 1954, as amended (R.I. General Laws Section 45-24.1-1 et seq.) and the Rhode Island Antiquities Act of 1974 (R.I. General Laws Section 42-45.1-1 et seq.).
www.osmre.gov /rules/part939.htm   (2283 words)

  
 GrowSmart599
Rhode Island citizens have the right and the responsibility to determine that questions about minimizing the potential for risk and maximizing the potential for reward have been asked and answered.
In 1979, Rhode Island voters approved a $25 million bond issue for purchase and cleanup of the property, and the land and facilities were sold or transferred to the State and the Town of North Kingstown.
Rhode Island is well within the standards established for five of the six pollutants.
www.insidepolitics.org /heard/GrowSmart599.htm   (13463 words)

  
 Dennis J Roberts Expressway (US 6)
Both Rhode Island and Connecticut submitted the proposed US 6 Expressway to the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) for submission in the Interstate highway system, but the Federal government rejected the proposal.
In 1944, the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut drafted a preliminary map of routes to be included in the proposed National System of Interstate and Defense highways.
In the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, the BPR granted an Interstate route between I-84 in East Hartford and I-95 in Providence in the "Proposed Interstate System Adjustment" report.
www.bostonroads.com /roads/US-6_RI   (1498 words)

  
 U.S. 6 - The Grand Army of the Republic Highway
Because the highways in the system were owned by the States, the Secretary of Agriculture submitted the Joint Board's proposal to the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) for approval.
Because the highway was owned by the States, the organization asked each State to act on the proposal.
It was erected by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in memory of the heroic services and unselfish devotion of the Union soldiers, sailors and marines who laid down their lives on the altar of sacrifice during the Civil War.
www.fhwa.dot.gov /infrastructure/us6.htm   (2108 words)

  
 North-South Expressway (I-95)
This section, which extended from the Connecticut-Rhode Island border north to EXIT 4 (RI 3) in Richmond, was opened to traffic on December 12, 1955.
In 1955, Rhode Island voters authorized a $30 million highway bond issue that increased the state's debt load by 75 percent.
The RIDPW - and its successor, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) - studied a number of plans, from simple flyover ramps connecting to local streets, to complex multi-level interchanges connecting to a new east-west expressway through downtown.
www.bostonroads.com /roads/I-95_RI   (2894 words)

  
 USA: State Laws on Hitchhiking in Rhode Island (RI) - Laws in Rhode Island -digihitch.com
Rhode Island mentions hitchhiking specifically in its law, stating that no one can stand in the roadway while hitchhiking.
That portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk, berm or shoulder even though such sidewalk, berm or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles.
In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
www.digihitch.com /usa-358---.html   (385 words)

  
 RI Chapter Sierra Club - Sprawl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Rhode Island has lost a significant amount of farms to sprawl.
Because the lease agreement with the state is based on number of employees, by the end of the year, when Fidelity has more than 2,500 employees at the site, the multi-billion dollar company will occupy the land for free.
The Route 403 expansion is a state and federally subsidized highway project intended to serve a container port at the former Quonset Naval Base.
www.sierraclubri.org /sprawl   (1223 words)

  
 DEA Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, State Factsheets, Rhode Island
The marijuana available in Rhode Island is mostly Mexican, however it is supplemented by limited amounts of other foreign based and domestic marijuana.
This cooperative program with state and local law enforcement counterparts was conceived in 1995 in response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime in towns and cities across the nation.
According to the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, there are currently 58 drug and alcohol treatment centers operating in the state of Rhode Island.
www.dea.gov /pubs/states/rhodeisland.html   (831 words)

  
 RI Travel/Lodging Ridot/E 9-1-1 Announce Changes To State'S Highway Call Box System
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) and the E 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System are announcing a change in the State’s highway call box system today.
Massachusetts still uses a call box system on their major highways, but their system does not allow the caller and the dispatcher to talk to each other.
The State Police can be contacted while on the road by dialing *SP, the same as dialing *77, for emergency as well as non-emergency situations.
riroads.com /news/20050113call_boxes.htm   (580 words)

  
 Interstate 295 Massachusetts/Rhode Island @ Interstate-Guide.com
The highway had also been proposed to extend east and southward from the current northern terminus (later renumbered to the never built Interstate 895).
One-half mile south of Exit 10/Rhode Island 117, is a diagram overhead for the Interstate 95/295 split.
Main Avenue, as the state highway is otherwise known, serves the Greenwood community and the city of Warwick to the east.
www.interstate-guide.com /i-295_mari.html   (710 words)

  
 Wildernet - Governor Hogg Shrine State Historical Park
Named for James Stephen Hogg, the state's first Texas-born governor from 1891 to 1895, the park includes museums housing items which belonged to the Hogg and Stinson families.
To reach the park, take US Highway 69 north from Tyler to Mineola; then go north on State Highway 37 for about 8 miles to Quitman.
The park is off State Highway 37 about 6 blocks south of the Wood County Courthouse.
www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=TXSPHOGG&CU_ID=1   (590 words)

  
 Interstate 195 Rhode Island/Massachusetts @ Interstate-Guide.com
Interstate 195 in Rhode Island and Connecticut connects Providence with its eastern suburbs, some small coastal cities in Massachusetts and ends at Interstate 495, with Massachusetts 25 continuing as an extension of Interstate 495 to Cape Cod.
Interstate 195 could have been used as an eastern extension of Interstate 84 had Interstate 84 continued from Hartford to Providence via former Rhode Island 195 (now U.S. However this option would require a new freeway or a major overhaul of RI 10/U.S. 6, as that route is not up to Interstate standards.
The state route cuts the corner of Interstate 195 to Massachusetts 25/Exit 22A and is the first eastbound exit of Massachusetts 25.
www.interstate-guide.com /i-195_ma_ri.html   (668 words)

  
 ridotrds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
RIDOT contracted with Intermap Technologies to transform the data from Massachusetts State Plane to Rhode Island State Plane (meters).
This was accomplished by rectifying the imagery a second time using control data denominated in Rhode Island State Plane meters.
The Rhode Island State Plane data was subsequently resampled to feet based on Rhode Island State Plane coordinates in feet.
www.edc.uri.edu /spfdata/rigisup2003/Transportation/ridotrds.htm   (1104 words)

  
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There are now over 126,000 children of women state and federal prisoners, and it is estimated that nearly as many children have a mother in a local jail.
State or regional contacts for community corrections funding or website references for other agencies are listed in the topical sections.
Council of State Governments 2760 Research Park Drive Lexington, KY 40578-1910 606-244-8203 http://www.csg.org E-mail: appa@csg.org Innovation Groups aims to help those working in local governments network with each other for the mutual benefit of their regions.
www.ncjrs.org /txtfiles1/bja/190352.txt   (16524 words)

  
 Rhode Island news wire - Boston.com
The state Department of Health and Human Services ordered a pet store distributing company quarantined Friday after officials suspected some of the store's rodents were infected with a virus that can be harmful to humans.
One of the defendants in the state's landmark lawsuit against the former makers of lead paint has asked the state Supreme Court to decide whether the judge in the case should recuse himself.
More than 20 communities could be charging residents too much car tax and might have to give partial refunds, according to a judge's ruling.
www.boston.com /news/local/rhode_island   (453 words)

  
 Rhode Island - 2002 OES State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
Rhode Island - 2002 OES State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
These occupational employment and wage estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry sectors in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in Rhode Island.
These and other data elements, including the 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentile wages are available in the downloadable Excel files (XLS).
www.bls.gov /oes/2002/oes_RI.htm   (240 words)

  
 New Deal/W.P.A. Artist Biographies
Born May 5, 1889 in Rhode Island; died on November 17, 1975, in Norton, MA.
Her WPA work included a map mural of Washington that was commissioned by the State of Washington in 1938 and hung in what was then called the Public Lands Building now called the John A. Cherberg Building.
Training: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (1921-1925); studied abroad with the sculptor Vassilief in Paris (1920); with Hans Hofmann in Munich (1927).
www.wpamurals.com /wpabios.html   (12142 words)

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