Pomfret Vt.: "When the ... colors start to pop, the road is suddenly clogged with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of cars, parked haphazardly. Tour buses come, spilling out passengers with cameras ... visitors often walk brazenly onto private property ... setting out picnics on the sprawling fields."

According to Chat GPT (although notoriously inaccurate):

The Brown & Sharpe strike, which began in 1981. The picket lines stayed up for years, and the strike didn't technically end until the mid to late 1990s. I believe by some measures it's considered the longest strike in U.S. history.

I suspect that's why they put in the floating bus stop islands along some of these lanes.

We've largely failed on the "What Comes Next" part of this article: a concrete maintenance plan. Not one flex-post remains standing on Manton Ave (daunting to ride against traffic in an unprotected bike lane). And it's been that way for a year. Flex-posts along South Water St. are disappearing too.

There’s still a for sale sign in the window. Maybe they haven’t taken it down yet

A cool new canoe landing on Kinsley Ave across the Woonasquatucket River from US Rubber Lofts is pretty much finished.

A cruise ship boarding in Providence Harbor for an 8-day trip along the southern New England coast and islands…

Yes

ha. Not a train engineer, and I believe it's his real name. I think he lives in the Midwest. Also posted a fresh video on the bridge today...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn51...