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Empty seats on Quonset Express

STEVEN KING, managing director of the Quonset Development Corp., said the Quonset Express free public bus service from Providence to the Quonset Business Park should see more passengers once the Infinity Meats packaging plant opens there as the new facility, which is in construction, is expected to employee up to 700 people./PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Have you ever been on a bus with nobody on it? It was a lot like that when the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority started its free “Quonset Express” bus service in late January. State officials wanted the daily shuttle between RIPTA’s hub at Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence and the Quonset Business Park in

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