RIPTA cancels morning trips for 4 Providence high schools amid driver shortage
This is a file image of a RIPTA bus. (WLNE)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority canceled some morning trips Thursday for four Providence high schools.
Some students at Central High School, Classical High School, Hope High School, and Mount Pleasant High School will be without bus service.
Cristy Raposo Perry, the spokesperson for RIPTA, said these service disruptions are because of a national driver shortage.
The public transit authority will update its website at 6 a.m. with morning school trip cancellations to prepare students for a disruption in their service, according to Perry.
If school trips are canceled, Perry said students can ride any available RIPTA bus to Kennedy Plaza and then transfer to a route take takes them to their school.
