140 Providence school buses to now capture license plate photos, videos of cars failing to stop

Child with backpack waiting at crosswalk.

Enforcement will begin on October 1 after a warning period and citywide public awareness campaign; All 140 school buses in the Providence Public Schools fleet have been modernized with cutting-edge safety technology. In a proactive effort to address dangerous driving behavior around school buses, the City of Providence and Providence Police Department have partnered with…

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Free minibus plan in Nantucket could be a model for RIPTA in Providence

An aerial view of a RIPTA bus flying over an island.

Reprinted with permissions from The Nantucket Current. Photo: Cary Hazlegrove Editor’s Note: With ridership in Rhode Island the heaviest in Providence, yet most buses riding around considerably empty, a move to smaller transit, or mini-buses, may prove to be a more successful model for the state’s capital city, as well as other routes while ridership…

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Providence City Council wants a quick plan to transport students. Will biking be a part?

A group of people standing in front of a bus stop.

Transportation for Providence Students At last night’s Providence City Council meeting, and with RIPTA’s warning that fixing their driver shortage problems is a longer term issue, a resolution was passed calling on the Providence Public School District (PPSD), Providence administration and the RI Department of Education to “quickly” develop a public transportation plan for Providence…

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Still no basis to leave Kennedy Plaza – David Brussat

An artist's rendering of a city intersection.

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer on architecture Image, above: Proposed Dorrance Street Transit Center four blocks south of Kennedy Plaza. (Union Studios) Not much seems to have changed from last November when I first wrote about a new proposal to replace the Kennedy Plaza bus depot with a new, indoor facility…

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New RIPTA transit hub will move buses from Kennedy Plaza to Dorrance Street

Dorchester street transit center preliminary building program.

The Dorrance Street Transit Center in Downtown Providence begins its trip to a long-planned reality. The process, which began this morning with the state transit agency publishing an on-line “Request for Expressions of Interest” (REOI) is designed to tap the expertise of private developers across the country for bold, innovative ideas to guide the construction and…

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