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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) continues to move forward with plans to build a new downtown transit center in Providence. On Monday, the public will ...
But RIPTA faces a projected $32 million budget ... from a mixed-use building on Dorrance Street to a tunnel under Kennedy Plaza − before being scrapped. RIPTA entered into a public-private ...
RIPTA declined to comment on the matter on ... Sanchez suggests a renovation of Kennedy Plaza could instead be done “for a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars that it would likely ...
RIPTA leaders, multiple governors and mayors, and the business community in downtown Providence have long supported moving the central bus hub out of Kennedy Plaza, but coming up with an ...
Though a bus shelter and stop sign are inside the parking lot off JT Connell Highway, buses are unable to access it due to a RIDOT engineering error.
RIPTA confirmed to The Newport Daily News that two bus routes currently service the lot: Route 14, which services the West Bay from Narragansett to Kennedy Plaza in Providence, and Route 24L ...