Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Principal Planner Zachary Agush presents a map of the proposed Metro Connector lines at a public engagement session at CCRI’s Warwick campus on Sept. 30, 2024. (Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
WARWICK — Half a dozen staffers from the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) had enough snacks to welcome a busload of people to an engagement session on the fourth floor of the Community College of Rhode Island’s (CCRI) Knight Campus.
But only Chelsea Jimmins, 23, of West Warwick hopped off a bus for the meeting. Jimmins, who works at Walmart and doesn’t have a driver’s license, said they only found out about the meeting through social media and wanted to have a say on how public transportation should operate in the Ocean State — specifically to request RIPTA have more beach buses during the summer…