@WEATHERISHAPPENING And for #RhodeIsland
- State of Emergency
- Travel Ban Instituted: Off the roads by 7PM.
- #RIPTA service suspension at 9PM.
- Emergency Shelters (open by 6PM):
--> Matthewson Street Church, 134 Matthewson St., Providence (⚠️ Priority Shelter)
--> Community Church of Providence, 372 Wayland Ave., Providence
--> Open Table of Christ, 1520 Broad St., Providence
--> Gaudet Middle School, 1113 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown
--> Jenks Middle School, 350 Division St, Pawtucket
anyway, on to the new projects
most interesting are:
- year round #lrta-#nts connection, no word on whether it will be at pheasant lane or in nashua proper
- #mvrta route into salem nh to connect to the #mta 23 (and obviously the many shopping destinations there...)
- #pvta route from ware to holyoke
- funding for the #srta to work with #ripta to bump frequency on the 24l; not sure how this will work in practice, but will be nice to finally get this up from rush only
@c_9 @humantransit I hear that - #RIPTA in Rhode Island is gutting over a dozen lines and reducing 30 more.
Tiny state, less busses, more cars. Public transit has to fight:
1) Social Stigma
2) The Car's Social Identity
3) Red lights
4) Bad or no advertising (You can use your phone to pay for transit - who knew? Most non-riders!)
Good law can at least fix number 3, and maybe even 4. But without it, they'll keep gutting.
#RI is GUTTING its #RIPTA #transit system. They're ELIMINATING *16* routes, reducing *42* more, because our legislators can't imagine a commute without their car.
Took the #bus from the boonies today as I normally do. I never needed my car for my commute. Most Rhodies don't, until now.
If you live in RI, even if you take a car, less busses = more cars, more traffic for you. Tell governor #McKee to step up.
https://pvdstreets.org/save-ripta/
The bus is good. Try it, before you can't.
in other far more depressing news the proposed #ripta cuts are here
cuts across the board, from full routes to frequencies to span of service, and all types of routes, from the r line to the 301
very very bad if all of this goes through (i mean, the 1 running every 32 minutes would be a bit of a joke)
Some complain about #RhodeIsland's #RIPTA but honestly, as I'm riding right now, it's a 'decent' #transit system to the rest of RI.
It's lacking in several factors, like:
- It's a Hub and Spoke bus system where all routes lead to #Providence making going elsewhere tedious.
- No light rail #train system to move the majority of passengers up and down the RI coast.
- The Hub, Kennedy Plaza, is not a good place and too far from the train station to connect to #Boston.
RI should keep pushing.
Vehicle drove way over the curb and destroyed my #bus stop sign. So one day the bus driver is like “I keep picking you up at not a bus stop” and I’m like “bro someone destroyed the light post that had the sign on it” and my man had the gall to say he won’t pick me up at that spot anymore since there’s no sign.
So TIL bad drivers can literally steal #transit stops just by destroying the posts they are on. Thanks #RIPTA
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