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@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

#transit

#Providence - 130pm today, show up to protest the slashing of #RIPTA budget & fare increases https://pvdeye.org/event/save-ripta/ #RI #RhodeIsland #PVD #Transit

@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.

Rally at 5pm at Kennedy Park in #Providence to protest the cutting of a large number of #RIPTA bus lines in the state of #rhodeisland

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)

https://www.ripta.com/ripta-to-hold-public-hearings-on-proposed-statewide-service-cuts-due-to-budget-deficit/

#transit

@benfulton Write your representative now. #RIPTA was going to cut 8 #bus #transit routes and reduce another 5 because of a “driver shortage” and all it took was someone to say “have you tried a hiring sprint with a competitive wage and help getting the CDL?”

Literally school bus drivers were getting paid more than RIPTA drivers.

Let’s just say the cuts have been tabled.

A primer on #RIPTA bus headsigns by Mark Ebuña (via Kenny Uong/X)

https://www.ripta.com/destinationsign/

#transit #ProvidenceRI #signage #ux

looks like the #mvrta is moving its #lawrence hub to the #mbta commuter rail station. while this is good for multimodality, the station is somewhat isolated from downtown, being a 15 minute walk from lawrence's main common that the current hub at buckley is adjacent to. now, it's not in the middle of nowhere and it's certainly more complicated than #ripta's blatant joke of a proposal, and most north side routes will probably continue serving downtown