Liza Birch

Those of us who've been observing Alviti for 10+ years know: every accusation is a confession.

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Such a perfect example of the false promises of microtransit, which state leaders in RI have been pushing as the "right-sizing" to RIPTA's fixed route. It's bullshit. Just watch.

Cool trip and brutal look at the impact of RIPTA cuts

Best possible way to start my week.

Schedule for RIPTA 75 showing service 7 days a week.

Revised schedule for RIPTA 75 showing no weekend service at all

Before & After for my bus, @ripta.com 75. The extra hard kick in the ass is that the Saturday schedule was actually better than the weekday schedule, and now it's just gone. Thanks for everything @govdanmckee.bsky.social

if you’re ever feeling down I recommend getting a dozen friends and installing planters for traffic calming and beautification

thanks @pvdstreets.bsky.social (and @sueanderbois.bsky.social)!

It took 9 months to plan and 24 hrs to give birth to these planter babies! Thanks to my amazing co-parent @dylancgiles.bsky.social! Hoping to do this in many more locations around PVD.

Thank you. We've been fighting long and hard at @pvdstreets.bsky.social to #SaveRIPTA and unfortunately came up short. McKee just doesn't give a shit, and our GA was only willing to plug half the deficit.

Thank you so much for amplifying. Dan McKee is mediocrity incarnate who is stifling progress in our state across the board, including stranding thousands of transit riders.

A crowd of people under low tree cover are gathered behind reporters with cameras in a plaza with autumn leaves on the ground. A person with a microphone speaks, standing behind a ring of tall candles.

A person speaks into a microphone standing behind a ring of tall glass candles under tree cover with yellow leaves on the ground. Two large banners with white lettering say “SAVE RIPTA” & “FUND TRANSIT”

A person wearing black with a vibrant scarf speaks animatedly into a mic in front of a transit bus shelter with red busway in the background.

Two people hold a sign and one holds an artificial candle. The sign reads Caution, POLITICIANS are turning on us!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our R.I.P.-TA Vigil as devastating service cuts loom just days away. 🕯️

Shame on you @govdanmckee.bsky.social for putting riders through this!

PEAK COMMUTE from Providence to Pawtucket and back this evening (no bike lights = no riding on N. Main)

home ➡️ 🚲➡️🚤 ➡️🚲 ➡️ @pvdstreets.bsky.social meeting at @mapcenter.com ➡️ 🚲 ➡️ 🚌 ➡️ 🚲 ➡️ home

Postcard map of Bristol RI in foreground, shady lawn of Linden Place background

Bristol Rhode Island, pretty as a town gets, is the latest 2 feet 2 bucks postcard map of destinations served by @ripta.com

A tale of three state capitals:

It’s disheartening to leave Hartford, CT & Boston, MA, regions with robust CTtransit & MBTA networks, and return to Providence, RI where RIPTA is facing major service cuts in just a few weeks. 😞🚌

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.@pvdstreets.bsky.social is growing! @dylancgiles.bsky.social and I are on the hunt for a kick-ass fundraiser with a passion for sustainable mobility and equitable transportation and desire for a flexible and fun work environment. Learn more here: pvdstreets.org/were-growing/

RIPTA proposes largest cuts to bus service in its history - TPR: The Public's Radio The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority proposed service reductions to nearly all of its bus routes on Thursday as it tries to balance a budget deficit. The proposed cuts, which are laid out in deta...

Huge thanks to the Public's Radio for having Scott of @growsmartri.bsky.social and I on this morning to talk about RIPTA's impending service cuts:

thepublicsradio.org/transportati...

RIPTA board of directors meeting 8/28 1:30pm RIPTA board of directors meeting 8/28 1:30pm Roll: Schey, Leach, Crowley, Benoit, Alviti, Lombardi, Masino, Georges 1. Board Approval - To consider for approval the Draft Meeting Minutes of the Boar...

One hour into the RIPTA board meeting and public comment is still going strong. Comments from so many riders, drivers, and community orgs as well as Reps Tanzi, Morales, and Sanchez and Senator Vargas.

Notes via @dariaphoebe.com here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm sorry but if you’re a Democratic Governor who's touting a revised transit budget plan that still comes at the expense of service cuts, that’s a step in the wrong direction. Leaving this here for Dems who are still trying to figure out how to win back young voters. 🚌🫏🗳️

ripta.com/publichearings

Honored to be interviewed for this comprehensive @providencejournal.bsky.social piece on walkability in Providence alongside friends @sueanderbois.bsky.social & @2feet2bucks.com!

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Quoting @holyspokes.bsky.social: "We stopped the murder of RIPTA, but it's still on life support."

Went beyond the Apex last night

Haha eeehhhh it's really anywhere on Broadway!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Myself and my friends have pedicabbed approximately 1 million wasted white ladies away from the Clarke Cooke House. It's so funny and sad to see one of them making national news for being a drunk idiot.

Idk who needs to hear this, but in the era of rampant crowdfunding for surgeries and hospital bills, evacuations from warzones, immigration lawyers, rebuilding homes and businesses after natural disasters, etc. — DO NOT SHARE A GOFUNDME FOR YOUR BURNING MAN CAMP IN A GROUP CHAT. FOR F**KS SAKE.

Good thing I hustled so hard to submit a tax-exemption application to the IRS this spring/summer ahahahahahahah our government is demolished.

ICE agents are keeping watch outside courthouses. They upended a North Providence couple’s life. • Rhode Island Current The June arrest of Guatemalan national Pablo Grave de la Cruz, 36, outside the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal in Cranston is one of a growing number by federal immigration agents at or around courthous...

For the last couple weeks, I’ve been reporting on ICE arrests at courthouses in Rhode Island. One advocate I spoke to says that he knows of 15 such arrests in our small state since January.

Read my @rhodeislandcurrent.com feature on the issue here.

Attended the @pvdstreets.bsky.social “Riders Stranded by the State” rally in Downtown Providence to demand @govdanmckee.bsky.social, House Speaker @joeshekarchi.bsky.social & Senate President Valarie Lawson to fully fund @RIPTA.com to stop proposed service cuts. Transit is essential!! 🚌✊🏽 #SaveRIPTA

Please read what @zagush.bsky.social, a RIPTA planner, has to say about the Governor's cuts:

@holyspokes.bsky.social from @pvdstreets.bsky.social encouraged us to contact our state legislators, especially Governor McKee.

Save RIPTA rally at Kennedy Plaza on Wed. 8/6 @ 5 pm

3 days left until RIPTA board meets to vote on cuts (show up 9 am on Thu. 8/7 @ RIPTA Boardroom 269 Melrose St.)

2025 RIPTA Public Hearings - Providence, RI - Livestream YouTube video by RIPTA

@kennyuong.bsky.social also people can tune in online live @ www.youtube.com/live/sQaVttJ...