Transit advocate and RIPTA rider Grant Dulgarian, left, at last week’s Rhode Island Public Transit Authority board meeting where more, and deep, service cuts were announced. (Colleen Cronin/ecoRI News)
Ever since Peter Alviti became Rhode Island Department of Transportation director in February 2015, removing bus riders from Kennedy Plaza has been more important to state “leaders” than properly funding public transit.
Mr. 20th-Century Transportation was rewarded for his efforts to further erode the state’s public transit system by being named chair of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority by a governor who seems to enjoy making low-wealth people, those with disabilities, the elderly, and high school students beg for a ride…