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The Providence Neighborhood Planting Program is a community-led organization engaging local residents in planting and maintaining trees on city property to create a larger and more equitable urban forest.

Report: Too soon to tell if RIDOT downtown transit plan violates Civil Rights Act Updated at 1:27 p.m. on April 14, 2021. A REPORT filed on Tuesday by the R.I. Department of Transportation Office of Civil Rights in response to a Title VI complaint said the Providence Multi-Hub Bus System proposal is too preliminary to be found in violation of federal anti-discrimination law. /PBN GRAPHIC/ANNE EWING PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights says it is too e...

Transit and environmental justice advocates in Rhode Island have filed a formal Civil Rights Act complaint against the Rhode Island Department of Transportation for its plans to dismantle the state’s biggest transit hub, Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence. In a complaint filed on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, John Flaherty, Deputy Director of Grow Smart Rhode Island, and Dwayne Keys, President of the South Providence Neighborhood Association, allege that the “deeply flawed and harmful ...