A community Coalition working to increase RIPTA's budget to: 🚌 Close the fiscal cliff 🚌 Raise driver wages 🚌 Expand bus service For people and the planet!
Providence, RI
Joined March 2024
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SaveRIPTA 🚌 retweeted
.@rihouse Finance Committee budget would phase in millionaires tax over three years, it includes money for an inspector general's office, and it removes the DOT director as chairman of the RIPTA board.
Huge thanks to @BenBerke6 & @OSMediaRI for reporting on @RIPTA_RI's 2025 service cuts. While we are relieved that @GovDanMcKee's budget proposes funding RIPTA's existing budget deficit this year, it does nothing to restore these devastating service cuts:
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Luckily, Rep Alzate & Sen McKenney introduced bills to restore the cuts via a $5 million allocation. Yes, only 0.03% of the $14 billion state budget! Please watch to understand how such a small amount can have such a massive impact on riders' lives & livelihoods. #SaveRIPTA
SaveRIPTA 🚌 retweeted
The latest from @ProvBusNews: when @RIPTA_RI service is cut, the local economy feels it. Public transit is economic infrastructure. It connects people to jobs, businesses to customers, and communities to growth. @PVDStreets @SaveRIPTA @TransitRi
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SaveRIPTA 🚌 retweeted
@GovDanMcKee gave car owners tax relief, but cut bus routes. Furthermore, he wants to raise fare hikes for worse service, a tax on the working poor.
SaveRIPTA 🚌 retweeted
Coffee. A bus ride. A U.S. Senator. We rode the #33 with @SenWhitehouse to talk transit, housing and climate -- and why 2026 must be the year RI restores service and plans boldly for the future. #rhodiesintransit LEARN MORE:
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STATEMENT
Providence Streets Coalition and Save RIPTA welcome new leadership at RIDOT that will have a multimodal, 21st century approach to transportation, respect and communicate with all residents, and center safety and transparency.
Full Statement: tr.ee/Ia-k-7a9zt
NOW LIVE: You can now stream the short documentary “Bus Cuts,” a compelling piece of filmmaking by Maya Kelly chronicling the impact of service cuts on RIPTA riders and drivers.
Watch here: youtu.be/tgsHYMenMCA?si=zFxq…
We are grateful to see the recognition of RIPTA’s importance in Gov. McKee’s budget, which allocates funds to fill agency’s deficit.
The reality remains that the impacts of the largest bus service cuts in RIPTA’s history, enacted last fall, are devastating for riders & drivers.
If Governor McKee and the General Assembly truly seek greater affordability and advancement for Rhode Island, they must reverse the cuts and invest in sustainable funding that expands our only public transit system.
💪We will be back at the State House to fight for real long-term investments in transportation funding every week this session!
📢Tell @govdanmckee and your state leaders to REVERSE THE CUTS!
Send a message at the link ⤵️
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Here’s what you missed at yesterday’s Save RIPTA presser and report briefing! ⤵️
🚌100+ attendees packed the State House Library for the event. Save RIPTA released a 14 page report detailing impacts on service in the months following largest cuts to service in agency’s history.
Coverage of the event from @RICurrent , @BostonGlobe , and @oceanstatemedia
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🗞️bostonglobe.com/2026/01/08/m…
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🚨ACTION ALERT: Following the report, tell your lawmakers and state leadership to reverse the cuts and get RIPTA back on track!
📬Send a message today, personalized with your experience and it will go directly to those with power to make a difference!
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