Tag: Ripta
RIPTA mobile app allows ticket purchases; next up, scanning
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority has launched a mobile app, so passengers can buy tickets and passes from their smartphones and show...
R.I. plans to use $14.4M from Volkswagen settlement to fund electric...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s money from the Volkswagen AG diesel fuel emissions scandal settlement will be used to pay for electric buses and to...
Bristol receives $1.2M for Prudence Island Ferry Dock renovation; project’s cost...
BRISTOL – The town of Bristol will receive $1.2 million to rehabilitate the north and south walls of Prudence Island Ferry Dock Pier from...
Avedisian named RIPTA CEO, to step down as Warwick mayor
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority has selected Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian as its new CEO, it announced Wednesday.
As both are full-time positions,...
Warwick Mayor Avedisian a finalist for RIPTA CEO
WARWICK – Mayor Scott Avedisian is a finalist for CEO of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, a quasi-state agency that he previously helped...
East Side Bus Tunnel project gets $904K federal grant
PROVIDENCE – Sen. Jack F. Reed announced $903,870 in federal funding for the R.I. Public Transit Authority to improve the East Side Bus Tunnel...
Business resumes in R.I., Bristol County, Mass., after third nor’easter
PROVIDENCE – Business as usual is returning to the area after Tuesday’s nor’easter dumped at least a foot of snow in some communities, keeping...
Storm continues as region shuts down, with scattered power outages
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass., residents are now breaking out the shovels and snow blowers to start digging out from this...
Raimondo, state officials urge safety as latest nor’easter commences
PROVIDENCE — Calling it a “very serious storm,” Gov. Gina M. Raimondo addressed the media at the R.I. Emergency Management Agency in Cranston Tuesday...
Five questions with Jan Brodie
Jan Brodie | Executive director, The Pawtucket Foundation
1. What is the model for the transit-oriented development district around the commuter rail station expected in...