http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/02/02/you-cant-get-there-from-here/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:10:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/02/02/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-11533 Jeffrey Smith Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:13:59 +0000 http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/02/02/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-11533 It is too bad that the RIPTA/New England Fast Ferry's Providence-Newport Ferry run will be shutting down. Back in 2004, when I was on it as well as the other ferry, before it, the Interstate Navigation Company's Providence-Newport-Block Island Ferry run (now the Newport-Block Island Ferry run), were to two good ferry runs down Narragansett Bay. It is too bad that the RIPTA/New England Fast Ferry’s Providence-Newport Ferry run will be shutting down. Back in 2004, when I was on it as well as the other ferry, before it, the Interstate Navigation Company’s Providence-Newport-Block Island Ferry run (now the Newport-Block Island Ferry run), were to two good ferry runs down Narragansett Bay.

]]> http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/02/02/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-3804 Jef Nickerson Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:38:15 +0000 http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/02/02/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-3804 RIPTA and the Governor battling every year over budgets. The battle ends up in the papers with threats to drastically cut services and raise fares. Usually neither happens (at least not as drastically as predicted in the papers) and a way is found to continue funding RIPTA. It seems no one, RIPTA, the Assembly, the Governor, can find a path toward full and proper funding of RIPTA. And we, the riders, have to worry every year that the dire threats will come true. This abrupt announcement that the ferry is gone, no use trying to fund it, seem a lot like that. RIPTA and the Governor battling every year over budgets. The battle ends up in the papers with threats to drastically cut services and raise fares. Usually neither happens (at least not as drastically as predicted in the papers) and a way is found to continue funding RIPTA. It seems no one, RIPTA, the Assembly, the Governor, can find a path toward full and proper funding of RIPTA. And we, the riders, have to worry every year that the dire threats will come true. This abrupt announcement that the ferry is gone, no use trying to fund it, seem a lot like that.

]]> http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/02/02/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-3803 Littleshoe Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:39:20 +0000 http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/02/02/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-3803 "Is this again RIPTA using the media to lob a bomb at the Governor (that’s getting really boring)?" What are you referring to? “Is this again RIPTA using the media to lob a bomb at the Governor (that’s getting really boring)?” What are you referring to?

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