City Will Resurface Lower Thames Street
The month-long Lower Thames resurfacing project is scheduled to begin this May.
The Washington Square Enhancement Memorandum of Agreement has been amended to incorporate the resurfacing of Lower Thames Street, as voted by the Newport City Council during Wednesday night’s meeting.
According to the agreement, the state has made additional funds available for the project.
Enhancements will be made from Memorial Boulevard West to Morton Avenue.
The City of Newport will be responsible for the design and construction of the resurfacing of Thames Street.
T. Miozzi Inc., of Coventry, was awarded the contract as the lowest qualified bidder. The project will not exceed the allocated $300,000 from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation.
In a letter to the City Council, City Manager Jane Howington said the Department of Public Services’ objective for the project is to “make roadway improvements. . .in advance of this year’s summer events and festivals.”
Work is scheduled to be completed between May 1, 2012 and June 1, 2012.
There will be no financial impact to the City, Howington wrote.
Rhody
1:05 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Awesome. Now when will Broadway be done?
amusedinri
2:57 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Good news. Newport Patch can you please find out when Broadway will be done ? it is the main drag of our city and it's in awful shape. TY
power
5:24 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012
I think this is great. But why do we wait until season to do it??
John M
5:34 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Well I do not believe it,Newportr is going to improve part of it's roads?For many,many
years Newport has neglected it's roads so much that it is like driving on a roller-coaster with bumps and pot holes.Broadway,Thames St and Spring St are deplorable to say the least,you would think a city with such a history would at least repair the roads.Long over due are the repairs of the main roads in Newport.A friend of mine who came to vist last year told me,he loves Newport but something should be done about the condition of the main roads,Wake up Newport:
William
7:45 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012
How about repaving the Street that Newport is named after.. Newport Ave. My parents have lived there for over 40 years... the street has not been paved in over 30... and the road conditions in that area- Nicol terrace, Hall and Warner are just stupid... Why the heck do these people ( now old famlies and sadly new transports) pay taxes, DO you get IT--- the Roads are not safe and the Neighborhoods are eyesores and the Residents that are taking over these areas are to a large degree Section 8... or folks that are in starter homes trying to make ENDS meet... not so easy when the town you live in could care less.... As far as resale for homes like my parents house.. they have had everything done over...Good luck who wants to live in this slummmmy area... Thanks Newport City Planners-- Great jobs as Always!!!!
Jolly rogers
11:12 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012
You will not see a road paved in Rhode Island till 1 or more politician's find out a way to pocket some of the money for themselves .Follow the money trail after the lower thames is paved, investigate the contractor suppena all the financial records and look for un accounted for funds ,You will shurley find some leading to some politician or one of there family members ..... And i agree with William Newport Ave has needed to be repaived for about 15 years now my daughter used to live on nwpt ave....
John H Hedley
1:10 am on Friday, March 30, 2012
I don't know how anyone on the council of this town can show their face. Roads that don't get paved until the very last seam fails. Water that doubles in price in less than four years. Eight years to build a school (it's the only town I've even lived in where there are more abandoned/closed schools than actual ones). The dirty little secret of this project: it is just a resurfacing with asphalt- it's not permanent because they expect to dig up more when the sewer project resumes (which they don't have money for, btw). I shudder to think what the property tax increases will be when the caps are lifted later in the decade- as if 4% every year without fail is some how responsible government. Glad I won't be around to see it.
Taxpayer
10:40 am on Sunday, April 1, 2012
The number of closed and yet to be sold schools is one. The number of operating schools is 7 if you include the met school. Not sure where you learned math.
John H Hedley
6:04 am on Monday, April 2, 2012
@taxpayer Throughout the modern history of this city Newport has closed far more schools than it has opened. Who does that? A dying town, that's who. Unless multiple sources on google are lying the count is seven (Mumford, Lenthal, Carey Sheffield and St. Mary's are just those of the past 2 generatations that I could confirm)- and it will be eleven (Underwood, Cranston-Calvert, Coggshall, Sullivan (with a net of ten when Pell opens).
I wouldn't include the met because it has a restrictive admissions policy- a genuine public school is not free- it's open to all.
Stop the semantics of what's been closed in the immediate past, open your eyes and realize that the policies and ideological bent of a majority of this town's residents has slowly been killing this city. Where it once had a middle class, a working waterfront and industry it now has just tourism and the (gradually diminishing) Navy. Neither of them are growth industries as the recent and distant past have shown. A good place to start fixing things is with the schools and instead of keeping them in neighborhoods it closes them- a strategy that clearly hasn't worked over the past 40 years.
Chowda Head
4:28 am on Friday, March 30, 2012
Another road project in the Spring and Summer, great...
Michael Robbins
6:01 am on Friday, March 30, 2012
I will believe it when I see it... Let's hope its not a half assed job that band aids the problem. Can anyone please give me a direct and honest answer why this cannot be started right away and not in season. Thank you.
Chmn
9:15 pm on Saturday, March 31, 2012
The streets are in poor condition due to utility excavations. National Grid and the Water Department make cuts in the roads to service properties, then fail to make proper patches which often fail and the taxpayers must pay to repave the entire street.(Warner street was completely repaved in 1987.)
The answer is to have the homeowner pay to repair the road once their homes are serviced with either a gas line or water line. But wait there is more: If it costs say $1,000 to patch the road then the property owner should be required to place another $1000 in a city escrow account if the repair fails within a year.
Patrick
10:26 am on Monday, April 2, 2012
@ hedley-Lenthal was just a replacement while Thompson was being renovated certainly not an independent school.
Patrick
10:27 am on Monday, April 2, 2012
Also broadway is far from being NPTs main strip. it is very clearly Thames in every way
Matt Borges
2:38 pm on Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Heading uphill on Narragansett Ave is pretty rough too...
Christine
12:23 pm on Thursday, April 12, 2012
Yeah! In the twenty years that we have been on Lower Thames, the condition of the roadway has continued to decline. Thank you for finally paving Lower Thames, and we are grateful. Everyone will always make a comment...why not my street, why not Broadway...but let's face it, Lower Thames is very bad, too. Let's do what we can to disrupt life in the least way possible and BE HAPPY SOMETHING GOOD IS GETTING DONE:)