RIPTA leaders, multiple governors and mayors, and downtown Providence businesses have long supported moving the bus hub out ...

Plans to put bus hub within a mixed use development have so-far no panned out. RIPTA faces $32 million deficit.

RITBA announced that Newport Pell Bridge will have a lane closure and traffic pattern changes due to construction this ...

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Metra is seeking feedback from commuters about potentially renaming several of its rail lines, including the Rock Island Line ...

Metra on March 18 detailed its program for the 2025 construction season, covering station, track, road crossing, bridge, and ...

Robin Rhode was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1976. Inspired by youth street culture and art history, Rhode creates drawings, paintings, photography, and films. In Rhode’s work, urban walls ...

Delivery is expected in late 2027 for Metra’s first dip into battery-electric multiple unit trainsets, eight trains from Stadler. That equipment has often been associated with use on the Rock Island ...

Rhode Island Energy customers voiced anger and frustration at a recent public hearing regarding high energy bills. The company proposed lowering electric rates for the spring and summer but ...

In announcing the survey, Metra says this change presents and opportunity “to reconsider all its line names, which follow no logical or consistent pattern,” which each line using its own distinct ...

Metra is considering renaming its lines in the ... or their location in a historic corridor. On maps, signs, and timetables, each line uses a different color. The result can be confusing for ...

Subsequently, Metra provided mostly unredacted documents in 2025. Buried in 130 pages of legal bills are clues about a wide-ranging eight-month audit that began in February 2023. Here’s an ...