Transit Alternatives for South East New England BENJAMIN MORTON Growth Peak Oil Climate Change Air Quality Mobility Congestion Inspire Create Accomodate Aging Population Flexibility Children Rising VMT Tax Base Quality of Life Peak Oil Peak Oil Air Quality Air Quality Maintaining Mobility Mobility ulation ulation Flexibility Flexibility of Life of Life Improving Growth Growth Create Create Tax Base Tax Base Economy Environment Society Air Qua Air Qua A A Children Children R R CO 2 Gas Prices Oil Outsourcing Closures Smog Particulates Terror War Brownfields Global Instability Tourism Fatal Crashes hange Iran Iraq Russia China e e e Flooding Drought Economic Collapse Disease Oceans Rising Conflict World Oil Supply United States Oil Supply Peak Oil Rearrangement of Living Conditions Inexorable Decline Long Emergency Connecting the GLOBAL... ... to the LOCAL e GLO O O GLO O O O e GLO O O he GLO h h h h Congested Regional Highways RT 6/10 Interchange Project Expected Cost: $226,000,000 I-95 / RT 4 Interchange Project Expected Cost: $150,000,000 Additon of two movements RI-403 Expressway Construction Expected Cost: $170,000,000 Length: 3.5 Miles Cost per Mile $48.5 Million RT 4 Expressway Upgrade Expected Cost: $60,000,000 Length: 2.5 Miles Cost per Mile $24 Million Bottlenecks... and Breakthroughs? I-195 Relocation Project Expected Cost: $577,000,000 Washington Bridge Project Expected Cost: $85,000,000 ...Boondoggles... To Apponaug To East Greenwich, Nar- To West Warwick, Scitu- To Foster, East Killingly, CT To Chepachet To Woonsocket To Woonsocket To Attleboro To Attleboro To Seekonk To Seekonk To Fall River To Bristol, Fall Providence North Providence Johnston Cranston West Warwick Warwick Barrington East Providence Pawtucket Central Falls Lincoln Smithfield Cumberland Streetcar Line Streetcar Line Continues City / Town Line Rivers I-95 / RT 4 Quonset Point West - TC Quonset Point East Quonset Point - Endicot Princeton Street Elmwood North Cathedral Square Smith Street - Multiple Stops Roger Williams University Warren Town Center Barrington Town Center West Barrington Warren / Bristol - Multiple Stops Riverside - Bullock’s Point Brown University / College Hill East Providence Transit Center Downcity / Financial District Jewelry District Park Rhode Island Hospital Allens Avenue Broad Street Auburn North Jefferson TF Green Airport Kettle Point Chevron Partnership South Attleboro Northeast Pawtucket Downtown Pawtucket Pawtucket Ave / East Ave North Main / Smithfield Avenue Unversity Place Valley Street - Multiple Stops Olyneyville Square Cranston Street Elmwood South Pontiac Pastore Center / State Offices Warwick Mall West Warwick - Multiple Stops Providence Station Providence Station TF Green Airport - Warwick East Greenwich Quonset Point West / TC Wickford Junction University of Rhode Island - New Kingston Wood River Junction / Shannock Westerly Acela Express - Boston Amtrak Regional - Boston MBTA - Boston RI LRT Amtrak Kingston Station RIRR North - Worcester 0 - 500 2000 - 4000 4000 - 7000 7000 - 10000 10000 - 15000 500 - 2000 > 15000 People per Square Mile Railroad Right of Ways Commercial Areas Industrial Areas GIS: Density, Industry and Rail ROW LRT System Proposal Regional Rail South Proposal Propaganda Poster Historic Streetcar System Analysis of Current DOT Projects Project Purpose and Need