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Transit: Likes
- $1.50 connects the entire state
- You can walk anywhere downtown in 30 minutes or less
- The Green Line Trolley is an excellent route
- Frequent affordable Commuter Rail service to Boston
- Newport-Providence summer ferry service
Transit: Dislikes
- Within city bus service is not frequent enough
- High volume neighborhood bus stops are underdeveloped
- They need heaters, benches, and canopies
- Bus stops have inadequate signage
- More maps, routing information, what is nearby, etc is needed
- The drivers are hard to hear and understand. Recorded announcements are needed
- The following pedestrian aspects are currently very weak:
- Signage
- Connections (from Valley to Federal Hill, for example)
- Walk/Don’t Walk signals
- Crosswalks
Image by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
Opportunities to Improve Providence Walking and Transit NOW:
- A new “clean slate” RIPTA system map needs to be developed
- Consider cutting remote and duplicate RI state routes
- A downtown circulator/connector route is needed
- Tourism and “destination” oriented routes are needed
- New routes without Kennedy Plaza connectors are needed. Examples:
- Federal Hill to Providence College
- East Side/Fox Point to S. Providence and hospitals
- West End/Valley/Elmwood to Olneyville
- Start a new bus route along the future S. County Rail Line in preparation
- Investigate future ferry routes (Bristol to Providence?)
- Better timing of street lights are needed along high volume roads
- Repairing sidewalks and cross signals are critical, as are new bike routes
Image © 2004, Steve Mann from Wikipedia
Visions for the future:
- Replace Kennedy Plaza by a system of neighborhood oriented nodes
- Lightrail in locations of high benefit, including: Allen’s Ave, Elmwood Ave, Smith Street, Promenade, Broad Street, North Main, and the East Side Rail Tunnel
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