UPCOMING: Rhody Streets Network Meeting
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 5:30-7 p.m.
30 Exchange Terrace, 1st floor, Providence
$25 stipend for HEZ resident volunteers
We prvide a healthy meal and beverages. Reserve your seat today!
RESERVE YOUR SEAT
After a long cold winter, everyone has their minds on getting outside and being ACTIVE.
Join us as part of quarterly networking to learn from others across Rhode Island who are improving their community for walking, biking and transit. Get tips from past grant recipients and learn about opportunities to advocate for on-the-ground transportation improvements in your community. If you have any questions, please contact John Flaherty at jflaherty@growsmartri.org.
The Rhody Streets Network is a statewide ‘community of practice’ for people working to make streets in their communities safer for all who use them, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
- We meet quarterly to share updates on statewide efforts and to learn from one another.
- We stay connected with one another between meetings through this Google email list-serv (Rhody Streets Network) which anyone can join to pose a question to the group or to share a success story.
Action Resources:
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Check this Inventory of Safety Action Plans (SAP’s) to find the one for your community. See what recommendations were made that you could advocate for implementation with your community.
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Want to see Rhode Island’s 10-year list of planned transportation projects coming to your community? If they’re not yet fully designed, there may be an opportunity to influence a better outcome working with your city/town’s planning department. The list is called the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). There are two ways to search: 1.) This PDF version which includes process, goals and objectives background information and more detail on project status, or this interactive map version that you may find easier to search.
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When the STIP was being prepared (2025), municipalities were invited to submit priority local projects that they wanted to be included. These are the projects that were nominated by municipalities. It was be a worthwhile exercise to search the interactive map version of the STIP to determine if/which projects were selected for your community.
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Local Policy that you can promote in your community to achieve better outcomes for safe and inviting streets when they are planned for repaving, reconstruction or other improvements. Complete Streets ordinances or plans; Vision Zero policies, or Safety Action Plans. Here’s a Draft Inventory of the policies or related plans that are in play in Rhode Island communities. The document allows you to recommend an update if you learn of a policy in your community that we haven’t included.