Transit Moving Forward

Better Transit, Better Rhode Island

  • Transit riders sitting at a bus shelter watching another bus load people.
  • Ferry headed to Newport going by the Ponham Rocks Light taken from the East Bay BP.
  • Bike-share site, on a bus route in downtown Providence half-filled with bicycles.
  • various transit users awaiting buses at and around a bus shelter.
  • RIPTA transit center, buses and shelters.

Welcome to the home of the Rhode Island Transit Master Plan (TMP)! The Project Team (RIPTA, RIDOT, and RI Statewide Planning) will be using this website, and other tools, to engage and communicate with project stakeholders and the public. We look forward to providing updates on project happenings and progress. If you have any comments or questions, please share them with us here. We will compile your comments and review them with the Project Team.

Transit Master Plan

The Transit Master Plan will envision how our passenger transportation network should look and operate in the future. In Rhode Island, our passenger transportation network currently includes bus, rail and water transportation services. The Transit Master Plan will envision how this network should be enhanced and further developed to best meet the travel needs of the state's residents, workers and visitors. To develop this plan, we will use data, public input, stakeholder feedback and more. Both short-term and long-term projects will be proposed, as well as an implementation strategy identifying potential partnerships, policies and needed investments.

We want your ideas

We want your input to learn what transportation challenges need to be addressed statewide. Share your observations here!
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Posted Documents

The December 2018 Public Open House Workshop Summary has been posted
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