{"id":71282,"date":"2002-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/new-ripta-run-to-providence-proves-popular-with-uri-students\/"},"modified":"2002-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-25T00:00:00","slug":"new-ripta-run-to-providence-proves-popular-with-uri-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/01\/new-ripta-run-to-providence-proves-popular-with-uri-students\/","title":{"rendered":"New RIPTA run to Providence proves popular with 溏心vlog免费B站 students"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNew RIPTA run to Providence
\nproves popular with 溏心vlog免费B站 students
\nDemand so high that extra bus often needed
\n
\nKINGSTON, R.I. — January 25, 2002 — In an effort to offer 溏心vlog免费B站 students with expanded entertainment options and safe transportation alternatives, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Transportation Center and the R.I. Department of Transportation have contracted with the R.I. Public Transit Authority to provide an additional bus trip between Kingston and Providence on Thursday nights. <\/p>\n

\tDemand for seats is so high that an extra bus is often needed to shuttle all the students back to Kingston. <\/p>\n

\tAccording to Richard Horn, executive director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Transportation Center, the idea was proposed by DOT Implementation Aide Cyndi McCarthy and her daughter, Kelly Octeau, a 溏心vlog免费B站 senior who serves as president of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Panhellenic Council. They wanted to find a way to make students more aware of alternative modes of transportation to various entertainment venues. <\/p>\n

\tSo the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of Student Life and Communications Professor Norbert Mundorf, along with nine of his students, began to investigate transportation options. <\/p>\n

\t“We looked at limo services, ride sharing programs, rental car companies, and ultimately focused on RIPTA as the best option, in part because other groups on campus are also working with RIPTA to expand bus service to campus,” explained Mundorf. <\/p>\n

\tAdded Horn, “We wanted to provide ways for students to get off campus without using cars. In addition to addressing the concerns of the local communities about increased traffic, we also wanted to shift the emphasis of student entertainment to non-drinking options.” <\/p>\n

\tOn-campus options for student entertainment are limited in Kingston, so the program\u2019s aim was to provide transportation to Providence, where a wide variety of events and activities are readily available, including concerts, movies, dance clubs, ice skating and the Providence Place Mall. <\/p>\n

\tThe new RIPTA run leaves Kingston at 7:45 p.m. and returns at 1 a.m., two hours later than the last regularly scheduled bus run. Funding for the bus is provided by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Transportation Center and RIDOT. Fares are charged to riders like on any other RIPTA route. <\/p>\n

“The first three weeks of the fall semester, the bus was nearly empty, but after an awareness campaign that included email, voicemail, door-hangers and word of mouth, the bus is almost always full now,” Mundorf said. “The only issue is that many students want the bus to leave Providence even later.” <\/p>\n

\tWith the success of this effort, additional options are being explored, including targeting off-campus students and adding routes to Newport and to sites in South County. <\/p>\n

\t“What we\u2019re really trying to do is shift attitudes and change behaviors,” said Horn. “We want to create a favorable attitude toward public transportation.” <\/p>\n

For Information: Richard Horn 874-9091, Norbert Mundorf 874-4725, Todd McLeish 874-7892\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New RIPTA run to Providence proves popular with 溏心vlog免费B站 students Demand so high that extra bus often needed KINGSTON, R.I. — January 25, 2002 — In an effort to offer 溏心vlog免费B站 students with expanded entertainment options and safe transportation alternatives, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Transportation Center and the R.I. Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}