Record high diesel prices are driving Rhode Island public bus system into the red

A favorable diesel price lock that helped the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) narrow last year’s budget gap ended three months ago. But the financial woes facing the statewide bus agency from skyrocketing fuel prices is just beginning with the cost of diesel now over two and a half times what was budgeted for […]

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