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Andy Nosal

@2feet2bucks.com
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Here to spread word there's no better place than Rhode Island to explore historic cities and seaside New England by walking, rolling and transit!

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Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak) @andrewr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, ever. (Or Claude and certainly not Grok)
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 31/08/2026
You want efficient transit? The easy part is spending money to build and run it. The hard part is not having everything so hopelessly sprawled about that driving remains necessary for everyone. #RhodeIsland has the hard part in the bag but keeps choking on the easy part. motifri.com/free-range-r...
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Free Range Rhode Island: A fun map with serious implications – Motif
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 21/08/2026
Only one component of this project is likely to measurably improve service from any rider's point of view: Connecting Exchange street to Gaspee st will shorten a few routes by several minutes.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 14/08/2026
Thought-provoking postcard maps of #walkable #Providence now on sale at Riff Raff Bookstore Bar Cafe! Mail some to your #urbanism friends, better yet mail them to the ones who need to learn...
hand drawn map depicts walkable neighborhoods of providence as islands separated by man made and natural barriers
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 14/08/2026
Map postcards now available at the WaterFire Arts Center Store - @waterfireprov.bsky.social - Mail them to your #urbanism friends, better yet mail them to the unconverted. #walkable #bikebus #carfree
Free Range Rhode Island hand drawn map indexing a series of detailed maps of tourist-worthy destinations all accessible via foot travel, bus, bike, ferry
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 20/07/2026
Hot Club is that bar where sooner or later you meet just about anyone who is anybody in Rhode Island. If you go more than once you are a regular! Go there tomorrow Tuesday July 21, 6pm. Check out the brand new 2 Feet 2 Bucks maps and posters - and buy some to benefit @pvdstreets.org !
Hand drawn map, vicinity of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, showing outlines of available and planned map postcards, each detailing a city, town or region that is attractive, walkable and accessible via public transit.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 14/07/2026
OK, nowhere in the USA measures up to Europe. But is vacation travel via active transportation completely impossible here? It can be done in Rhode Island, a few transit rich cities... anyplace else? usa.streetsblog.org/2026/07/09/s...
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Safer Roads Are Just A Vacation Away — Streetsblog USA
... Or how I learned to stop worrying and love what Europe does with active transportation.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 10/07/2026
Paper map users gain various perspectives on given territories by reading maps at different scales, with different editorial emphases. Adaptable functional awareness of the reality you inhabit is indispensable to personal autonomy. Don't surrender to One Map to Rule Us All.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 02/06/2026
10 years ago I saw where it was all going. For a while I offered my products on Amazon because "math." But the deal changed constantly, little by little. Always becoming more heads Amazon wins, tails I lose. rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/06/01/y...
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You’ve been trying to get around Amazon – but it’s not that easy • Rhode Island Current
You might pick a small brand instead of the giant, but you've just walked through a different door into the same store. And it’s getting harder and harder to escape, a pair of consumer behavior and ma...
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 01/06/2026
Adler's Hardware on Wickenden St in #Providence #RhodeIsland always has just what you need including a set of these charming map postcards
8 Map postcards on display next to the cash register of a hardware store
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 29/05/2026
The new #WaterFire - Can You go home by train bus or ferry?postcard from 2 Feet 2 Bucks. Can a dinky map make you dream big about transportation policy, the arts, hospitality, prosperity and Providence's future? Read and decide- motifri.com/why-ask-can-...
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Why ask Can You Go Home? – Motif
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 01/05/2026
My plan to re-use the Crook Point Bridge: 1. Remove the "Stuck up" part. Rehabilitate the remaining structure and deck it for bikes and people. Build a lightweight drawbridge span. Key link in low-stress bike route from downtown to East Providence. ecori.org/crook-point-...
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Crook Point Bridge Symbol of Providence’s Broken Waterfront - ecoRI News
RIDOT plans to demolish the Crook Point Bridge, but the General Assembly advanced legislation to help Providence preserve the rusted railroad drawbridge.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 30/04/2026
There is no art like street art if the goal is to be seen by more eyeballs every day than if your painting were in a museum! And it's fun. We will see plenty on my Janes Walk, 10:30am Saturday May 2. Meet outside White Electric, 711 Westminster St. Providence #RhodeIsland
excerpt from a mural depicts a weasel-like cartoon criminal snipping the wire to a burglar alarm
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 25/04/2026
Exactly one week from now you can be strolling by and chatting about dozens of exuberant art works if you join my Jane's Walk "Street Art of the West and South Sides" in Providence #RhodeIsland. Meet 10:30am outside White Electric on Westminster.
Multiple colorful murals and graffiti cover walls around a corner in an alleyway
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 23/04/2026
Street Art of the West and South Sides: Join my Jane's Walk May 2, 10:30am starting from White Electric on Westminster St. Providence. Blank walls break the walkable city- Let's see what's being done about that. Please share! ppsri.org/events/janes...
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Jane’s Walk Providence: An annual festival of free, resident-led walking conversations - Providence Preservation Society
Explore Providence neighborhoods on foot with Jane’s Walk, a global walking festival on May 1-3, inspired by urban activist Jane Jacobs. These interactive walks are led by local residents and communit...
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 10/03/2026
Want to spend the next day this nice out of town outdoors? drivelessri.com The challenge accepts trips made for fun, not just commutes or errands. Swap a solo leisure car trip for a ride to one of RIPTA's many excellent destinations and be one of the new winners every week!
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Drive Less RI
Join Drive Less RI and get rewards when you walk, bike, telecommute, carpool, vanpool, take the bus, or work a compressed week. It's free and easy to do.
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Erin @biscuit.quest · 09/03/2026
This captures two of my big beefs with AI: (1) Writing is thinking. If you use AI to write, you are foreclosing your own thinking. (2) Sucking at something is the first step to getting better at something. The practice is the work. AI will only help you suck in a different and more depressing way.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 03/03/2026
Statistics can leave out what's most important. Traffic casualties are easy to measure. But even while no one in the neighborhood is bleeding, "Parents don't let their kids play outside" constitutes 24/7/365 damage to everyone's well being. No dollar figure or statistic reflects that so 🤷‍♀️.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 01/03/2026
The hostile design - "make people walk past random shops as much as possible on their way to the movies or wherever they want to go" is the biggest reason people hate going there. 🧵
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 22/02/2026
The drama, stress and especially expense of snowstorms are mostly on account of motor vehicles. Imagine how cheap and prompt cleanup could be if only sidewalks had to be done. Inexcusable that the city's efforts always worsen access for people who do not own a car yet pay no less in taxes.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 01/02/2026
Overlooked factor in the Driving After This Snowstorm Is The Worse Ever shambles: Everyone's car is a few feet longer and wider than the one they had last time it snowed this much and did not melt right away.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 31/01/2026
If sledding at Neutaconkanut Hill is unsafe, the job of the parks department is to landscape, gate and manage it so it can be used safely not just put up No Sledding signs and walk away.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 23/01/2026
Stormwater treatment would be a much smaller problem if not for excessive space devoted to cars. It's one of many cost burdens conveniently omitted from our deliberately obscure accounting of what actually gets spent to provide "Freeways" and "Free parking."
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 29/12/2025
At a desert resort convention in Phoenix I floated up to the poolside bar alongside vacationing RI Secretary of State Susan Farmer and had a hi neighbor chat
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 09/12/2025
If you can read this you probably consider yourself fully literate. But if like most people you think getting directions from your phone is the only map you need then map literacy is what you really need. Start by going to The Map Center and not just an online visit! www.mapcenter.com
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The Map Center
Like a vintage record store but for maps, The Map Center is the East Coast's oldest map store and a family friendly destination celebrating maps, map makers and cartography across Rhode Island, New En...
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 04/12/2025
Camera Werks on Hope Street in Providence is now among the retailers selling 2 Feet 2 Bucks postcard maps! See their collection of local artist greeting cards and buy the Delightful Sightseeing 8-pack - all 7 maps plus an extra Heart of Providence. thecamerawerks.com/index.html
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THE CAMERA WERKS
Your Little Shop That's Big on Service!
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 04/12/2025
Do you live in *Walkable City Providence* yet find it impractical to walk to where you need to go everyday? Whatever. The cheapest therapy is still to go out your door and take the longest walk you can. Take advantage of that. Everything you need to know is here: motifri.com/2-feet-2-buc...
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2 Feet 2 Bucks: Explore all of Providence – Motif
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 30/11/2025
Pawtucket #RhodeIsland, population density over 8,000/sq mi. puts forth a site plan for an all-city central High School that assumes every student and teacher will come and go by school bus or car. www.valleybreeze.com/news/board-a...
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 26/11/2025
Dear folks who say "I would use transit if it went from my house to my job:" That could be easily arranged (the hard part is done) if you live and work in a red area. Everywhere else, the best you might do is park and ride into a red area. Everywhere else is hopelessly car dependent for now.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 25/11/2025
New 2 Feet 2 Bucks map: ❤️ of Providence! Buy it or buy all 7 @weirdpvd.bsky.social in downtown's landmark Arcade. Proving there's more to see in #RhodeIsand when you are on foot or a bike than when you're in a car.
Retail display rack contains 7 map postcards. In foreground is  a map of the heart of Providence
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 24/11/2025
Beatrix is throwing her best shade. #whiskerswednesday #cats
shadow of a cat polishing its whiskers lands on a door. Cat also visible in small mirror next to door.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 18/11/2025
We are expected to accept death and injury on our streets, parents afraid to let children walk or bike in their neighborhood, as if the the only alternative was an utterly unrealistic ban on cars. That is a straw man. They die because cars go over twice as fast as anything else in the city.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 17/11/2025
"Car-free tourism" grants that going by car is what's expected so let's call it "Truly-free tourism." Pick up Motif magazine to see my map of Bristol #RhodeIsland- The most spectacular authentic historic seaside New England destination you can bike or bus to. motifri.com/2-feet-2-buc...
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2 Feet 2 Bucks to Bristol – Motif
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 09/11/2025
If you have a striped beach rock on display, please prove your Ocean State #RhodeIsland bona fides by posting a picture of it in present situ. Cat optional. #rocks
a gray multi-striped grapefruit sized beach rock on a windowsill beneath the face of a striped gray cat on a window mounted cat shelf
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 23/10/2025
Simple solution: Price all parking spaces available to visitors in downtown dynamically to ensure there is always an open space or two on every block. The only cheap parking is near the bridge ramps and includes a bus pass or discounted bike share.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 22/10/2025
Never has so much damage been inflicted to save so little money.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 01/10/2025
This author, on a previous visit to Providence, was big inspiration for my 2 feet 2 bucks project: To find, map and promote the most charming transit accessible places to walk in #RhodeIsland
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 25/09/2025
nonstarter?? Maybe start this way: Dear state employee, please choose one of the following: 1. "Free" parking 2. direct + opportunity costs of maintaining 250 square feet of asphalt on highly valuable downtown land added to your paycheck from now on.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 20/09/2025
Debts racked up to pay for transit must be serviced out of hotly contested transit budgets. Far bigger debts racked up to pay for highways just get repaid.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 19/09/2025
2feet2bucks will be selling postcards and posters at the funeral for benefit of @pvdstreets.bsky.social Mail them as condolences and to politicians who need to be reminded to have some respect for the deceased.
Small folding table bearing stacks of postcards and a Sign that reads postcard maps for footloose wanderers
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 19/09/2025
Postcard maps for footloose wanderers now available at Fenwick & Oliver gift shop right across from the harbor where the bike path ends in Bristol #RhodeIsland !
Postcard map of Bristol RI, in background is shop door and glimpse of harbor where East Bay Bike Path ends
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 17/09/2025
"$55,000 will be used to promote transit to out-of-state visitors and increase ridership." 2feet 2bucks dream coming true: The concept of visitors to #rhodeIsland using transit at has gone from "That is not a thing" to "This makes us look with-it!" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...
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RIPTA to get more than $500,000 to increase ridership, help meet state’s climate goals - The Boston Globe
The funding will be used to expand on-demand service, pilot a vanpool subsidy program, and promote public transit to tourists, officials said.
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 15/09/2025
Challenge: Post a picture taken from a bus stop more scenic than this! @ripta.com #60, Union St on Hope in Bristol #RhodeIsland.🚌🚶🚲 Coming home from Porchfest. What other US transit system that can take you almost everyplace worth visiting in a state? A sad failure not to take advantage of this.
View of a small waterfront park before sunset over Bristol harbor
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 12/09/2025
#Walkable can mean merely possible to walk so we need a more precise word for places that actually motivate you to get out and walk around. I don't have the word but I draw maps of those places hoping everyone follows them and enjoys. 🚶🏾🚍 1/2
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 11/09/2025
You and I paid for a lovely underpass shortcut from downtown #Providence to Waterplace park and the train station but a restaurant wants everyone to think it's their exclusive patio. This is hostile anti- #urbanism 🚶🚍
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 11/09/2025
Nice article- except no mention of the airport to Galilee bus. Wouldn't you rather spend car rental/parking $$ on an extra night on Block Island and more seafood? Oh wait, @ripta.com is being forced to eliminate weekend service here. @govdanmckee.bsky.social 🚶🚌 🚲 #RhodeIsland
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 10/09/2025
Bristol Rhode Island, pretty as a town gets, is the latest 2 feet 2 bucks postcard map of destinations served by @ripta.com
Postcard map of Bristol RI in foreground, shady lawn of Linden Place background
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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 07/09/2025
The story is always this: Your state unquestioningly spends more $ to enable the next person who wants to go anywhere to drive and park a car there than it would cost to provide a bus ride.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/09/2025
Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
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Why Walking Helps Us Think
Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
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