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VISION Defining Scope
PREFERRED ALTERNATIVES
PDDP PROCESS TO
REFINE SCOPE
In presenting the following three scope options, City officials and community
members clearly prioritized Main Street, with the supportive hope that the
other projects could follow. Additionally, because of fund already allocated for
street improvements at Exchange Street between the Nathanson Bridge and
Broadway, the team was also asked to study this street area and intersection.
The final scope was based on the Main Street focus, with the addition of
Pleasant Street and East Avenue Extension and Bayley and Dexter Street
intersections. Exchange Street and Broad Street are not included in this report,
but will follow in the projects described below.
The city sought additional planning funds to study the Pleasant and Division
Street intersection from Statewide Planning and Exchange Street from Dexter
Street to Broadway from Rhode Island Housing through the Pawtucket Citizens
Development Corporation Pawtucket and Central Falls Keepspace Project.
Those two projects will begin after the PDDP and will be considered addenda
to it.
COMPARING PDDP OPTIONS
Option 1
MAIN STREET
Option 2
EXCHANGE
Option 3
RIVER AREA
Change traffic circulation potential
Reduce one-way circulator potential
Improve connections to downtown
Pedestrian Needs
Bicycle Needs
Traffic Needs
Signal modifications
Roadway widening / narrowing
Median installation
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highest
middle
lowest
PDDP VISION