Nice to know that RIPTA " will also consider implementing new technologies ". Perhaps " new technology " would prevent RIPTA bus drivers from running over people trying to catch the bus ? Last May , 31 year old Bobbie Moore was nearly crushed to death under the Broad St. bus in Providence. Barbara Polichetti's boss, Scott Avedisian, was quick to blame the victim Bobbie Moore-who soon got the non-person- in- South Providence treatment in the news media. How well is Bobbie recovering ? Is the Providence Journal interested ? NPR ?
Pauline Goss, an eye witness to that accident, said Bobbie " was banging the bus so she could get on and he ( the bus driver ) just kept going slowly and then he ran right over her and he had to stop because everyone was screaming ". If this statement is accurate, RIPTA is guilty of vehicular homicide.
And many senior citizens in Rhode Island are also delighted that RIPTA is considering throwing them under the bus too: no more free rides for the elderly ?

A woman was hit by a RIPTA bus on Wednesday around 4:30 p.m. on Broad Street in Providence.