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Sleuthiestofsleuths t1_ja4vfki wrote

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

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BitterStatus9 t1_ja5azqz wrote

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!

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United_Perception299 OP t1_ja5f2qu wrote

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

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Impossible-Heart-540 t1_ja7k7bi wrote

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).

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Jareth86 t1_ja7rb3l wrote

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

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DadWagon13 t1_ja7qod3 wrote

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

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duburose t1_ja4rs9m wrote

Would love something like this! No car needed!!

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United_Perception299 OP t1_ja4s1xh wrote

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

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succubusprime t1_ja54ymz wrote

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.

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United_Perception299 OP t1_ja594x8 wrote

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.

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kayakyakr t1_ja7xfz7 wrote

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.

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boulevardofdef t1_ja5fyjc wrote

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.

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Random24381 t1_ja69sfr wrote

EG nice place dont need public transit

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Bronnakus t1_ja851ea wrote

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

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redd-this t1_ja52y1b wrote

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

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FjordExplorher t1_ja5bjia wrote

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

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redd-this t1_ja5ddhu wrote

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

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FjordExplorher t1_ja5krlk wrote

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

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rckblykitn14 t1_ja56sxh wrote

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

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plaverty9 t1_ja5hsvu wrote

Gotta go to Twin River.

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Reward_Antique t1_ja662wn wrote

Oi, what about South County???

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SmargelingArgarfsner t1_ja7o5if wrote

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.

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random-wander t1_ja5muik wrote

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

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ForgeWorldWaltz t1_ja5y5yv wrote

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

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duburose t1_jac9qqc wrote

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

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ForgeWorldWaltz t1_jacdnmp wrote

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

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duburose t1_jacfv2s wrote

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

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[deleted] t1_ja8x4kb wrote

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

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March_Latter t1_ja5764b wrote

Bus route or the original trolley line?

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United_Perception299 OP t1_ja5clmj wrote

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.

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March_Latter t1_ja5fgnt wrote

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.

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MonicaPVD t1_ja5oten wrote

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.

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random-wander t1_ja9y7ti wrote

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.

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MonicaPVD t1_jaa3i3h wrote

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.

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PJfanRI t1_ja5q3qh wrote

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.

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BigE1263 t1_ja7uml5 wrote

Needs a route to Newport and Kingston

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DrewCrew62 t1_ja890yl wrote

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

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jma7400 t1_ja7e8jb wrote

Need a stop to twin river.

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bambooboi t1_ja5bazs wrote

Not. Fucking. Happening.

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