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[KevinKorell]

From Pawtucket, RI Times, 7/23/04:

A commuter rail stop at the Broad Street, Pawtucket station,as well as stops in Cranston, East Greenwich, Kingstown, North Kingston and Westerly were marked down for study.

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[KevinKorell]

From Providence, RI Journal, 3/1/05:

PAWTUCKET -- Last month, the City Council gave preliminary approval to a measure that would20pave the way for a developer to tear down the Pawtucket-Central Falls train station and build a small shopping plaza in its place.

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[KevinKorell]

From Providence, RI Journal, 3/2/05:

Mayor sees silver lining in train station deadlock

PAWTUCKET -- On Monday night, a divided City Council split 4 to 4 over whether to let the city's redevelopment agency acquire the Pawtucket-Central Falls Train Station by eminent domain, seizing the property before it could be purchased by a private developer and turned into a shopping plaza.

The tie vote sank the eminent domain ordinance, dealing a setback to plans by the Pawtucket Foundation to control what happens on the site.

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[KevinKorell]

From Providence, RI Journal, 3/8/05:

Mayor: No talks with train station developer

PAWTUCKET -- Mayor James E. Doyle is spurning an offer by the developer of the Pawtucket-Central Falls train station to enter into talks to save the station building and stop the city from taking it by eminent domain.

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[KevinKorell]

From Pawtucket, RI Times, 12/28/05:

PAWTUCKET -- Could there be a new T stop in the city’s future?

That’s what two upcoming studies may go a long way to determine.

City, state and federal funds have been stitched together to provide a detailed land survey of the 3.4-acre depot property on Broad Street, which straddles the Central Falls line, as well as determine its viability for a commuter rail stop.

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[Sam Damon]

A commuter rail stop serving Pawtucket and Central Falls could attract 1,100 daily commuters, three-fourths of them new riders not currently serviced elsewhere, an engineering consultant outlined Tuesday in a presentation.
The consultant, David Wilcock, had a rapt audience of more than two dozen movers and shakers, including Mayor James E. Doyle and planning and other local officials, representatives of the state Department of Transportation and MBTA, the developers who own the depot site on Broad Street, and tourism, preservation and affordable housing advocates, among others.

More detail concerning the signal block issue is in this article from the Pawtucket, RI Pawtucket Times.

[KevinKorell]

From Providence, RI Journal, 12/19/06:

PAWTUCKET — The city and the would-be developer of the Pawtucket-Central Falls train station property have called a 30-day time out in their court battle over demolition of the station to try to negotiate a settlement.

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[KevinKorell]

Letter to the Editor in Providence, RI Journal, 12/23/06:

Save this beautiful train station

What a sad spectacle it has been to consider the Central Falls-Pawtucket railroad station being cut up like some beached dead whale. It wasn’t always that way.

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[KevinKorell]

Valley Breeze, 8/23/11:

After a lengthy inspection of the old Pawtucket/Central Falls Railroad Station last week, officials say they are confident there is no immediate danger of it caving in on an oncoming train. However, they caution that chunks of the station's fa?ßade are regularly falling on the tracks below, heightening the need to get repairs to the station done quickly.

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[Sloan]

Commuter rail could come to Pawtucket

PAWTUCKET, R.I. -
Officials from the Department of Transportation and the city of Pawtucket will hold an informational meeting on Thursday to update the community on a potential commuter rail project in Pawtucket.

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