Chuck Alves

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  Published on: 8/14/2007    Last Visited: 8/14/2007  

  "We're moving forward with that [an Amtrak agreement]," Chuck Alves, deputy director of the Department of Transportation said.

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  Published on: 8/29/2007    Last Visited: 8/29/2007  

  "It's a beautiful day for this ceremony," said Chuck Alves of the DOT.

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  Published on: 6/30/2007    Last Visited: 6/30/2007  

  By replacing nine of the staffers the private consulting firm, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, was providing the DOT for its traffic-monitoring center with four new full-time state workers - and expanding the duties of seven dispatchers in another division to include the traffic center, DOT chief of staff Chuck Alves projected $498,000 in savings. (He did not, however, produce a promised breakdown of these anticipated savings.)

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  Published on: 3/29/2007    Last Visited: 3/29/2007  

  Chuck Alves, deputy director of the Department of Transportation, said the state is still working on an agreement for access to the rails so that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority can provide commuter service to Warwick and Wickford Junction.

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  Published on: 11/1/2007    Last Visited: 11/1/2007  

  Asked yesterday why DOT disregarded the recommendation of the governor's fiscal advisers to cut contract-employee costs, deputy DOT director Chuck Alves said he believed the governor rejected the suggestion, as evidenced by the recommendations that made it into a final report.
  
  Among the likely reasons, he cited: the volume of construction activity has doubled without a commensurate increase in full-time DOT workers. (DOT's authorized state employee count currently stands at 786.7).
  
  Beyond that, "it was not a recommendation that was fully thought out," Alves said."They may not have had all of the information they needed," he explained.

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  Published on: 1/31/2008    Last Visited: 1/31/2008  

  And there will be trains, said Schattle and Deputy Department of Transportation Director Chuck Alves.
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  Alves, who refuses to discuss details because he doesn't want to "negotiate through the newspapers," now calls an agreement "imminent."
  
  "We're in the final stages of it.Amtrak is committed to giving access to the corridor," Alves said Tuesday.
  
  Envisioned are eight round trip daily runs between Wickford Junction and Providence that would include a stop in Warwick.The line is being called the South County Commuter Rail Service under the Pilgrim Partnership Agreement between RIDOT and the MBTA.Surprisingly, seeing the concept of the Warwick station was sold to the bureaucrats in Washington and even touted by the Secretary of Transportation as a model intermodal facility, any traffic to and from the airport is now being considered coincidental.
  
  Rather, commuters - those people wanting to get from Wickford and Warwick to Providence or as far north as Boston - are seen as the riders.Alves doesn't discount the airport as a destination or source of traffic, "especially for the business traveler."
  
  "It [the intermodal facility] allows for that market to exist," he said.

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  3rd Ward City Council Representative Colleen McGrath - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/7/2005    Last Visited: 8/18/2006  

  the Council of the City of Newport expresses gratitude and sincere thanks to the RI Department of Transportation, and especially to Director James R. Capaldi, Deputy Director Chuck Alves and Administrator of Contracts and Specifications Christos Xenophontos, for their dedication to the Cliff Walk Restoration Project and the City of Newport.

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  Published on: 5/1/2006    Last Visited: 3/2/2009  

  The extension of service to the popular Rhode Island airport is expected to start as soon as 2007 according to Chuck Alves, deputy director of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation.

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  Published on: 1/1/2005    Last Visited: 1/27/2005  

  The primary purpose of spreading the salt and sand mixture, according to Chuck Alves, the deputy director for the Department of Transportation, is "to make the surface of the roadways easier to drive."
  
  "The mixture keeps the ice melting," Alves said.
  
  "We even pre-treat the roadways before a storm occurs to try and make it so that when the snow hits the roads, it melts immediately."
  
  With all of the fury that mother nature has hit the area with lately and with all of the pre-treating of the roadways, as of yesterday's storm, several local plow operators have said that the sites that they pick up their load of salt and sand mixture at have been looking rather low.That claim, according to Alves, is to be expected with all of the snow we have had recently.
  
  "Of course it is going to look like a low amount," Alves said.
  
  "These sites are usually filled but, it is and has never been the case that the initial supply lasts throughout the year."
  
  There are 24 salt and sand storage sites across the state and at the start of each winter those storage sites are filled and then replenished as the contents are removed for use in winter stormsbut, with the intense winter weather we have had recently, Alves said it is challenging to keep up onthe demand.
  
  "As we get more storms we need to replenish faster and that is what we are trying to do," Alves said.
  
  "[On Tuesday] we had delivered about 3,000 tons and as of [yesterday] morning we had another 500 tons delivered so we are trying to keep up with the demand."
  
  "Our goal is to maintain a level that we feel comfortable with in order to best meet the needs of the storm directly ahead of us and, at this point, I am confidant that we can feel comfortable that we will," Alves said.
  
  The bulk of the salt and sand mixture used by Rhode Island plow operators comes directly from the Port of Providence.Some sections of Connecticut and Massachusetts are also serviced from there as well because Alves said, the Port of Providence is known as a regional location.

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  Published on: 11/13/2003    Last Visited: 11/13/2003  

  What's more, according to Chuck Alves, DOT deputy director and chief of staff, the Rhode Island Airport Corporation will be held responsible for picking up the design costs of a consolidated rental car garage even if the facility isn't built.
  
  RIAC shouldn't be troubled, however.It has been collecting that daily fee on rental cars ever since July 1, 2001, when legislators enacted a customer facility charge, or CFC.Since becoming law and through August of this year, RIAC has collected $4,827,427 in CFCs.Of the amount, it has spent $2,873,439 mostly on the Gilbane Building Co., managers for the project.The fee collected is $3.75 per day per car rented.
  
  As Alves explains it, the state has been using gas tax revenues and federal dollars to pay the bills.
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  "It's pretty much ready to go," Alves said when asked if the plans that are now a year old could be used.
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  I don't believe it's going to be long," Alves said yesterday.
  
  He expects a resolution with congressional reauthorization of funding under the Safe Accountable Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act.

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