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Learn about the RUMFORD RIFLE RANGE REMEDIAL ACTION CLEANUP.

Hello All,

Regarding this Cleanup: Curious, after all these years, we have left this area alone. People have been walking, hiking, biking, dirt biking, walking their pets and fishing in that area for a VERY long time!!

Now, “all of a sudden” there is a “need” to clean up the area?? This area is some of the last open space that we have in Rumford. The “main” reason that this is happening (IMO) is because the Igus, Inc. Company, located at 257 Ferris Ave., wants to expand. Just doing the clean-up will severely impact this area, AND the wildlife that inhabits the last bit of open area in our community!

We pay our taxes to the city of East Providence to provide our citizens all the services required to run our city....NOT, to completely turn it into a “Bedroom Community”!

I guess it is time for all us “Rumfordites” to start our own “Keep Metacomet Green” campaign...“KRG”.. KEEP RUMFORD GREEN!! To all my fellow East Providence residents: We failed trying to save Metacomet, let’s not repeat that failure in Rumford.

Thank you!

Raymond Bassett

Regarding Campbell Ave. and New Road

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I have lived on Campbell Ave since 1977. Prior to this, my family lived on the same block (on RWA) from 1965-1975 . . . . .Hence, I am VERY familiar with this area.

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The increase in traffic on Campbell Ave, especially over the last several years, has increased dramatically! Peak hours are Mornings, 6AM-10AM, then again from 3PM until 8PM. M-F. The weekends are even heavier! Mon-Fri, on average, cars zip along Campbell Ave every 13 seconds during this time. (Yes, I monitored it.)

Speeding on Campbell Ave is an everyday occurrence! Music so loud from cars driving by rattles our homes! Cars with modified exhaust systems (from the neighborhood) “ring-out” at all times of the day/night.

Campbell Ave. has always been a “Cut thru” street . . . but in the last several years it’s become “an accident, waiting to happen!”

In the last few years, our city has installed a variety of ways to deter drivers to slow down and to obey the Traffic lights, turn signals, and posted traffic signs. This is TODAY’S situation.

Once the newly constructed apartment complex (On Newport Ave) is completed, (with some 190 +/-) units, this will very likely, add an additional (190 +/-) vehicles to our neighborhood/area. Not to mention the increased traffic from the addition of several new businesses opening on Newport Ave.

New Road is already inundated with additional traffic just from the new Cumberland Farms! A large percentage of this ‘New traffic” is discovering how to “Cut thru” Campbell Ave, (after speeding down

New Road) so to bypass the traffic light at Pawtucket Ave/RWA.

We have seen a distinct increase in traffic on Newport Ave/New Road which is the direct result of the Cumberland Farms being open late at night. WHAT will be TOMORROW’S situation? Our neighborhood in, on, and around Campbell Ave/New Road will only get worse. Traffic will continue to increase. Accidents will increase. And unfortunately, crime will increase. East Providence, as a city (like so many cities in our country) struggles to meet the demands for more law enforcement personnel to be hired, trained, and deployed into our community, which costs money. So how can we “protect and combat” what is surely inevitable?

I believe that our city MUST become more proactive in this neighborhood by: Installing more Cameras; more “speed” detectors; and a few “speed bumps” on Campbell Ave, and on New Road. As the saying goes: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Our city needs to dispense a “few ounces” of cure, as soon as possible.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. I look forward with great anticipation to see you and our city council initiate and execute a plan to better protect and serve not only “My neighborhood”, but the entire city of East Providence.

Respectfully,

Raymond Bassett