Jef Nickerson
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Having diagnosed Rhode Island’s transportation bureaucracy as “dysfunctional,” Governor Raimondo Wednesday outlined the steps she’s taking to fix it — with or without revenue from proposed truck tolls.
In an overhaul of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation that started earlier this year, Raimondo said she has pushed out several managers, adopted private-sector planning processes and begun hiring workers to reduce the agency’s reliance on outside contractors.
RIDOT has also either dismissed or accepted the resignation of “four or five” unidentified employees for “dishonesty,” including false record keeping and not being where they said they were, according to Director Peter Alviti.
I don’t have anything nice to say about RIDOT so I won’t say anything at all.
In other RIDOT news…
RINPR: RIDOT Negotiating With Justice Department Over Years of Environmental Damage from Highway Runoff
Meanwhile we’ve spent a zillion dollars on a stormwater overflow retention system and our sewer bills spiral ever upward, but RIDOT has no idea where their stormwater is coming from or going to. Nice.