The Rhode Island Streets Transformation Project (RISTP), an initiative launched by RIDOH’s Healthy Eating and Active Living program in 2023, showcases the benefits of community design to promote physical activity and active transportation for Rhode Islanders. The RISTP awards funding to community-based organizations and municipalities with interest in temporary demonstration projects that will either enhance the built environment to encourage physical activity and active transportation or provide a program to the community to promote physical activity. The broader goals for HEAL’s RISTP are: 1) build municipal support for safer, healthier streets 2) expand outdoor green and public spaces 3) expand transportation choices within communities.
Since its launch, the RISTP has successfully awarded a total of 26 demonstration projects statewide from 2023 to 2025.
- Lefty Loosey Bike Collective
- Partnership for Providence Parks
- Providence Streets Coalition
- Town of Bristol
- Tri-County Health Equity Zone
- Trinity Square Together
- Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council
For more information on the projects, please view the 2025 Press Release: https://www.ri.gov/press/view/49234
- Bike Newport
- Providence Preservation Society
- Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council
For more information on the projects, please view the 2024 Press Release: https://www.ri.gov/press/view/47714
- Downtown Woonsocket Collaborative
- City of Cranston & OneCranston Health Equity Zone
- Town of Portsmouth
- West Broadway Neighborhood Association
- Pawtucket Foundation
- Bristol/Warren Health Equity Zone
- Town of Barrington
- Town of Middletown
- American Planning Association – RI Chapter
- RAMP: Real Access Motivates Progress
- Providence Bike Collective
- RI Latino Arts
- The Steel Yard
- Brown Urban Mobility Project
- Bike Newport
- Olneyville Neighborhood Association
For more information on the projects, please view the article from Providence Streets Coalition: Seventeen projects selected to receive streets transformation grants - Providence Streets Coalition
There continues to be a great deal of interest in RISTP among Rhode Island organizations. The number of RISTP applicants surpasses the amount in grant funding that is available. RISTP will continue in 2026 with projects to advance physical activity and active transportation among children and families.