Tag: Rhode Island Public Transit Authority
ACLU demands answers about transit agency data breach
PROVIDENCE (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island is demanding more answers about a data breach at the state's public bus...
R.I.’s resilient downtowns: Main Streets across the state scarred but ready...
In downtown Pawtucket, a bookstore reinvented itself by beefing up its online presence and ramping up services for fledgling authors looking to self-publish their...
RIPTA hampered by communication problems caused by ‘cybersecurity issue’
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority has been plagued by communication and computer problems following a cybersecurity incident that occurred late last week.
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RIPTA an alternative for riders affected by MBTA South Attleboro repairs
ATTLEBORO – The South Attleboro commuter rail station has closed indefinitely for repairs, but affected Rhode Island riders can use bus service to connect...
A routing interest: Planned downtown busing overhaul pits riders, other groups...
The ghosts of past public-transit plans have found their final resting place in a cardboard box in the office of Rhode Island Public Transit...
RIDOT must do more to prove new city bus plan is...
R.I. Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti Jr. is right when he says state and Providence officials have spent too many years spinning their...
Providence giving troubled e-scooter, e-bike programs another go, but not everybody’s...
Seemingly overnight, rentable electric bikes and scooters began popping up on Providence streets last year. The Creative Capital was in the regional vanguard of...
Little Roady test of autonomous travel
A $1.2 million state project is testing what some might view as a radical concept: Using autonomous vehicles – which can operate without human...
Adapt to disruptors – or perish? New players are disrupting a...
Where have all the apartments gone? On Aquidneck Island, and particularly Newport, the listing of an affordable, livable, two-bedroom home now draws a frenzy...
Electrical bikes hit Providence streets
PROVIDENCE – Over the next few days, you may start to see people buzzing around the city on red electrically-charged bicycles.
Beginning Thursday, electricity-aided bikes...


















