PROVIDENCE — From behind the wheel of Bus 33 to East Providence that Saturday morning, Eldora “Ellie” Giblin saw cars stopped on the Henderson Bridge near a man who had one leg over the guardrail.
No one was talking to him, she told Barbara Polichetti, public affairs director for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authoriity. “People just had their phones out and were taking pictures or video —It broke my heart,” she said.
She was nervous, she said, but she knew she had to do something. She stopped the bus. “I told my passengers not to worry and that I would be right back.”