The transit agency said it will announce plans for a fare increase and fixed-route service cuts in the coming days, with public hearings beginning in July.

In most years, including each of the last five RIPTA has had a policy, claims exceeding the $400,000 threshold where the stop ...

It’s year 50 behind the wheel for RIPTA’s most tenured driver, Stanley Fallens, who was born and raised in Providence. “The clock don’t wait, I remember when I got hired back in December of 1975,” ...

RIPTA faces an $18 million budget gap despite a proposed $15 million increase in funding from state lawmakers. A consultant's report suggests cutting 20% of bus trips and laying off 90 employees to ...

RIPTA CEO Christopher Durand told 12 News that layoffs are not off the table, adding, “What the study has said to us is there’s nothing to do but reduce service, and service is employees.” ...

RIPTA had 849 employees as of February, according to a House Fiscal Office report, so a 300-worker reduction would be more than a third of the agency's workforce.

RIPTA began buying stop-loss insurance after getting socked with $1.1 million claim in fiscal 2017-2018. "This will be the one opportunity I can think of off the top of my head to save some ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Providence Police Department said that a man was injured after a bus driver wouldn’t let him on due to him allegedly being drunk. The intersection of Charles Street and ...