Would love something like this! No car needed!!

Now we need a regional statewide Network that brings you to places like Kingstown and Westerly.

Woony too

Shouldn't this connect to the Wickford Junction artery?? You know, so that it would have a function.

Needs to go to the beach

Yup. Now just the simple task of acquiring miles and miles of consecutive land parcels.

Theyre trying to push a commuter rail from groton to new london to westerly. I would absolutely LOVE if it extended to Providence. As of now the only option between westerly and Providence is Amtrak and it isn't convenient at all.

The Pawtucket stop appears to be in my apartment....that could get a bit annoying. 😁

Bus route or the original trolley line?

No, just next to it😉

It's actually at the same spot the current station is for the commuter rail.

That seems interesting, and at that point people in Connecticut would be using the commuter rail to commute to Providence, instead of just people using it to get to Boston.

Yeah I figured as much, that would make the most sense.

Was just reading about how there was an electric trolley line (built in the 1890s) that ran from Newport up to Fall River. They charged riders 5 cents per town (so, Newport to Portsmouth = 10 cents). I bet it was faster than RIPTA!

Not. Fucking. Happening.

Simple. Cheap. And with no historical or environmental obstacles.

One of these could be a trolley maybe. Anyway, the yellow is the xanthic line, a bus rapid transit service that connects to places where trains would be nice but too much out of the way. There's XL1 between the two Southern stations connecting to the commuter rail and there's XL2 to the hospital.

We’re talking about a rail system, right? Right?

And then a car company bought it and ripped it out, right?

From what I know the original Trolley routes there was one that went down town and one that went to the amusement park at reservoir....More History than todays commuting items so sorry to interrupt.

This is cool but there's actually a proposed light-rail system that goes past TF Green and terminates at CCRI, so I think this should cover that base, at least. Would be nice to extend it even further to Main Street East Greenwich.

Gotta go to Twin River.

That's what it looks like to me, intentionally colored similar to the T map.

I would add a light rail network that maybe connects in kind of a triangle formation where one line goes down to westerly one line goes down to Newport via Bristol and then a connected for the two lines in north Kingstown. And maybe a line to Woonsocket

🎵Wickford Junction; what’s your function?🎵

At a cost of $150-200 million dollars per mile, on average, it's safe to say that RI does not have the density to justify building any kind of light rail for the foreseeable future. Shit, we can't even convince our leaders to underwrite free RIPTA, which would be like 35 million a year and literally change people's lives.

Sadly the $150-$200 million has much more opportunity for grifting, so in RI it has a far greater chance than $35 million to help the public.

Why is gansette so far north here? Are they taking over Cranston? I’m confused

Putting SKY ZONE on the map!

Oi, what about South County???

Why cant I a bus straight from SK to providence anymore?

EG nice place dont need public transit

A dream

Would be cool but busses are just the better option

i like sky zone station

Lmfao

Need a stop to twin river.

r/TransitDiagrams

Revenues had dropped over 50% from their peak, and the street car lines were all losing money.

It’s comforting to place the blame on car companies who bought out the lines, but truthfully, it was us (or at least our grandparents).

The state ends in Warwick. Just ask anyone who has ever done a traffic report. RT4 is a parking lot? Pfffft forget that, tell them about the 6/10 and thurbers for the 37th time this morning.

Then Judge Doom bought, just to shut it down and put in an 8 lane superhighway

How dare you use facts to disagree with the reddit zeitgeist.

Needs a route to Newport and Kingston

I know at least parts of the old lines got turned into bike paths.

At this point, what we need is speed. We need to start separating grade and doing all the things we need to do to bring speeds into the 120-200mph range. That's what makes the full NYC-Boston commuter line feasible.

But getting commuter service to extend to Westerly would be a good start.

would be much nicer if it was accessible without a car so that the streets aren't clustered with em

🎶sittin all vacant and empty, or somethin🎶

Lol k

As someone in Smithfield, I’d love to be able to take a rail line into PVD. Would save a ton of hassle

As someone who used to live in Centerdale* I agree

It should connect to wickford junction (MBTA) and Kingston (Amtrak)

If only RIPTA ram more frequently

Of course the second densest state couldn’t support such a network just look at New Jersey and their lack of light rail…. Oh wait.

There are nine times more people in NJ that there are in RI. If density were the deciding factor, Central Falls would have its own transit system by now.

It’s the name of a shopping plaza on the EP/Pawtucket line.

That finally makes sense… still, make it after the town, especially if it’s a name shared with a town. But otherwise yeah it’s cool

It’s the name of the street there. Kind of like how there are streets named after all kinds of things, people and places

Would only take a million years to pay for itself