On November 18, 1902, Rhode Island established the State Board of Public Roads “to oversee the construction, maintenance and improvement of the state’s highways system.”
Prior to its establishment, there was no state-level entity to “supervise and monitor work on public roads within Rhode Island; those duties were instead localized and decidedly scattershot.”
An initiative in the U.S. Northeast designed in part to drive reduced carbon emissions in the transportation sector has met opposition from the retail fuels industry.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia were the first governmental bodies to sign on to the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) earlier this month. That was followed by a joint statement of opposition from NATSO, the National Association of Convenience Stores and the Society of...
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