"...it remains our sincere hope that RIDEM and NPS will right this wrong ... [and] address the significant and permanent adverse impacts [of this] manifest environmental injustice..."
Thank you Councilman Gregor for your thorough and well thought out and written letter of protest to RIDEM. This space must stay green. This whole fiasco has already damaged the credibility of Pawtucket's leadership in the form of the mayor’s administration.
I really hope this works. I've seen some of the evidence that substantiates Gregor's claim, and I really wonder what the government of Pawtucket thinks it's doing. Clearly, they aren't doing research; it doesn't take much to find out that truck distribution centers are the third leading cause of lung cancer world wide and that most jobs are poorly paid contract trucking jobs. The stadium gets bigger and bigger, more and more expensive, and again, even superficial research will reveal that such stadia are nearly universally a catastrophe for the hosting cities. The process, too, has been anything but "transparent"--the town revealing that an essential agency has pulled out over major concerns, agreements that aren't in writing, etc. All of this information is easily available on this site, ProJo, Valley Breeze, Boston Globe, and golocalProv.
Its hard to do satire while our esteemed leaders come up with real-life schemes like paving over the only green space in a poor neighborhood for a parking lot, along with providing ridiculous ever increasing vast subsidies for a private minor leage soccer stadium also in Pawtucket, or the Providence Mayor's idea for reducing Washigton Bridge congestion is to discourage bicycling, and his idea for transit is to force almsot broke RIPTA to move their bus hub out of Kennedy Plaza and build a vastly expernsive nerw bus hub in a remote location to which almsot nobody wants to go You can't make this stuff up
Councilman Gregor tells it like it is. it is a travesty of environmental justice and democracy, two things that very closely parallel as no community willingly assents to degradation, it is forced on them by the powerful.
Thank you Councilman Gregor for your thorough and well thought out and written letter of protest to RIDEM. This space must stay green. This whole fiasco has already damaged the credibility of Pawtucket's leadership in the form of the mayor’s administration.
I really hope this works. I've seen some of the evidence that substantiates Gregor's claim, and I really wonder what the government of Pawtucket thinks it's doing. Clearly, they aren't doing research; it doesn't take much to find out that truck distribution centers are the third leading cause of lung cancer world wide and that most jobs are poorly paid contract trucking jobs. The stadium gets bigger and bigger, more and more expensive, and again, even superficial research will reveal that such stadia are nearly universally a catastrophe for the hosting cities. The process, too, has been anything but "transparent"--the town revealing that an essential agency has pulled out over major concerns, agreements that aren't in writing, etc. All of this information is easily available on this site, ProJo, Valley Breeze, Boston Globe, and golocalProv.
Its hard to do satire while our esteemed leaders come up with real-life schemes like paving over the only green space in a poor neighborhood for a parking lot, along with providing ridiculous ever increasing vast subsidies for a private minor leage soccer stadium also in Pawtucket, or the Providence Mayor's idea for reducing Washigton Bridge congestion is to discourage bicycling, and his idea for transit is to force almsot broke RIPTA to move their bus hub out of Kennedy Plaza and build a vastly expernsive nerw bus hub in a remote location to which almsot nobody wants to go You can't make this stuff up
Councilman Gregor tells it like it is. it is a travesty of environmental justice and democracy, two things that very closely parallel as no community willingly assents to degradation, it is forced on them by the powerful.