Public transit and biking advocates are pressing state transportation officials to start implementing long-range plans to move away from auto dependency.
During a Nov. 17 state Transportation Advisory Committee meeting, several speakers complained that long-range plans approved two years ago to expand public transit and bicycle networks statewide are collecting dust.
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One plan calls for doubling the operating budgets of the R.I. Public Transit Agency and the R.I. Department of Transportation for more buses and trains, including a new electric light rail.
Another calls for hundreds of miles of new shared-use paths and buffered bicycle lanes.
But funding sources are uncertain for both.
Not fast enough as far a public transit goes.
Bike paths are only for those folks who shouldn’t be riding bikes in the first place and are a waste of taxpayer dollars.
The State needs to focus on building a light rail system that concentrates on a purely intra-Rhode Island system.