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Cutting RIPTA Service is not “Efficient”

Rhode Island’s top elected officials are forcing new cost-cutting measures on RIPTA in the name of “efficiency”. A comparison of ridership, service levels and finances across RIPTA and its peer transit agencies tells a different story.

The R code for this analysis is available at https://github.com/mciethan/routed-in-place-blog/tree/main/20250613_ripta_benchmarking

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