PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority is planning to reallocate its service, eliminating or shortening some routes in favor of other, busier routes because, transit officials say, it can't afford to add service.
"This is not about hurting people," RIPTA's planning chief, Mark Therrien, told a small audience at the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center last week. "This is about taking the service and moving it someplace else."
The reason is money, Therrien, said.
"There is no more money in the pot," he said. "We're not getting any more money" from the governor and General Assembly, "so we have to do something" with what the authority has.
Changes are outlined in planning documents for the authority's "Comprehensive Operational Analysis" at the RIPTA web site under "projects"