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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 1d

@transit.app is deteriorating in other ways that are probably @ripta.com's fault. Sometimes I view the route map for inbound and see a bus a few blocks up the line that turns out to be an outbound bus! More often, there is no real time data at all so I must trust the schedule as in olden times.

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 1d

Do you want the app to think for you or do you seek information to decide things for yourself? In cities where I can text a bus stop's # and instantly receive a text showing upcoming arrivals at that stop I can figure out the rest and it's better than fumbling with the app.

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 6d

make it say NOBODY TREAD ON ANYBODY ELSE

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 8d

Gee, drivers are never asked to justify their presence on the road in this manner. When highway spending is the topic, every automobile trip is assumed to be indispensable to the economy.

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 9d

But there's a basket of gummies in the lounge

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 9d

now do it in a sailboat

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 10d

This author, on a previous visit to Providence, was big inspiration for my 2 feet 2 bucks project: To find, map and promote the most charming transit accessible places to walk in #RhodeIsland

Jonathon Stalls @jonathonstalls.bsky.social · 10d

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 15d

nonstarter?? Maybe start this way:

Dear state employee, please choose one of the following:
1. "Free" parking
2. direct + opportunity costs of maintaining 250 square feet of asphalt on highly valuable downtown land added to your paycheck from now on.

Antonia Noori Farzan @antoniafarzan.bsky.social · 15d

“However, building on that site would mean losing 126 parking spaces from the carapace of asphalt lots covering the capitol complex, a nonstarter in Rhode Island state government.” www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

New, slimmed down state archives building proposed to hold RI's state treasures

The secretary of state wants $60 million for the archives, including work at URI, down from more than $100 million in 2024

www.providencejournal.com

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 20d

Blowing off last minute travelers is blowing off most of the potential ridership. I am so old I remember when you could show up and go.

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 20d

Debts racked up to pay for transit must be serviced out of hotly contested transit budgets. Far bigger debts racked up to pay for highways just get repaid.

TransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social · 20d

“Why does transit seem to be in an endless emergency? Why is it so easy to assume that transit’s financial situation is hopeless? Because we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.”

Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 21d

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 21d

2feet2bucks will be selling postcards and posters at the funeral for benefit of @pvdstreets.bsky.social

Mail them as condolences and to politicians who need to be reminded to have some respect for the deceased.

Small folding table bearing stacks of postcards and a Sign that reads postcard maps for footloose wanderers

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 21d

Postcard maps for footloose wanderers now available at Fenwick & Oliver gift shop right across from the harbor where the bike path ends in Bristol #RhodeIsland !

Postcard map of Bristol RI, in background is shop door and glimpse of harbor where East Bay Bike Path ends

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 23d

Setting us up for "We tried that and see? It doesn't work."

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 23d

Now can they learn that free passes will not put tourists into bus seats if the bus comes every 91 minutes and stops running at dinnertime?

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 23d

"$55,000 will be used to promote transit to out-of-state visitors and increase ridership."

2feet 2bucks dream coming true: The concept of visitors to #rhodeIsland using transit at has gone from "That is not a thing" to "This makes us look with-it!"

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...

RIPTA to get more than $500,000 to increase ridership, help meet state’s climate goals - The Boston Globe

The funding will be used to expand on-demand service, pilot a vanpool subsidy program, and promote public transit to tourists, officials said.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 26d

Challenge: Post a picture taken from a bus stop more scenic than this! @ripta.com #60, Union St on Hope in Bristol #RhodeIsland.🚌🚶🚲 Coming home from Porchfest.

What other US transit system that can take you almost everyplace worth visiting in a state? A sad failure not to take advantage of this.

View of a small waterfront park before sunset over Bristol harbor

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 27d

To travel about on a bicycle without stress and anxiety

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 28d

Buy the set of 6 at Weird Providence in the Arcade and get an extra Urban Hiker's Chart of Providence!

6 map postcards held in a fan, columns of Providence's Arcade in background

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 28d

#Walkable can mean merely possible to walk so we need a more precise word for places that actually motivate you to get out and walk around. I don't have the word but I draw maps of those places hoping everyone follows them and enjoys. 🚶🏾🚍 1/2

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 29d

You and I paid for a lovely underpass shortcut from downtown #Providence to Waterplace park and the train station but a restaurant wants everyone to think it's their exclusive patio. This is hostile anti- #urbanism 🚶🚍

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · 29d

Nice article- except no mention of the airport to Galilee bus. Wouldn't you rather spend car rental/parking $$ on an extra night on Block Island and more seafood? Oh wait, @ripta.com is being forced to eliminate weekend service here. @govdanmckee.bsky.social 🚶🚌 🚲 #RhodeIsland

Islands @islandsmagazine.bsky.social · 29d

Hidden Between Narragansett And Charlestown Is The Coastal Rhode Island Village With The Freshest Seafood

This isn't just a sleepy little beach town where you make a pit stop to fill your stomach - it's a destination that hums with the rhythm of seaside life.

www.islands.com

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · Sep 10

Bristol Rhode Island, pretty as a town gets, is the latest 2 feet 2 bucks postcard map of destinations served by @ripta.com

Postcard map of Bristol RI in foreground, shady lawn of Linden Place background

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · Sep 7

The story is always this: Your state unquestioningly spends more $ to enable the next person who wants to go anywhere to drive and park a car there than it would cost to provide a bus ride.

WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Washington Bridge Breakdown - Target 12 is investigating how much all those police details are costing taxpayers. Monday on 12 News at 5.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Sep 3

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Why Walking Helps Us Think

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

www.newyorker.com

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Andy Nosal @2feet2bucks.com · Sep 1

Tell the person who answers where you are from and that you consider the convenience of public transit 🚇🏙️ when you decide where to spend on travel and leisure. They will be shocked to hear from you. It would be a big favor to us local activists who can't convince some pols you exist: 401-222-2280

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