Report: Too soon to tell if RIDOT downtown transit plan violates Civil Rights Act
Updated at 1:27 p.m. on April 14, 2021.
A REPORT filed on Tuesday by the R.I. Department of Transportation Office of Civil Rights in response to a Title VI complaint said the Providence Multi-Hub Bus System proposal is too preliminary to be found in violation of federal anti-discrimination law. /PBN GRAPHIC/ANNE EWING
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights says it is too early determine whether the state’s downtown transit proposal violates federal anti-discrimination policies.
The six-page report dated April 13 and shared with Providence Business News on Wednesday was issued in response to the Title VI Civil Rights Act complaint filed by Grow Smart RI and the South Providence Neighborhood Association in January. The groups in their complaint said the controversial Providence Multi-Hub Bus System constituted a civil rights violation because of its adverse
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How long they actually stay is another question.
Democrat Raimondo is poised to resign mid-term to take a new job, in Washington, as President Joe Biden s commerce secretary. Her confirmation hearing was Tuesday. An committee vote on her nomination is anticipated next Wednesday, February 3.
The exact timing of Raimondo s departure is unclear. But Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who chairs the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, told Raimondo on Tuesday: I do not believe you will be serving as governor of the state of Rhode Island for very much longer.
Against that backdrop, McKee is preparing for his move up one flight to the governor s State House suite as soon as next week. He has set 5 p.m. Tuesday as the deadline for those seeking appointment by him as R.I. s next lieutenant governor to submit a letter of interest online to his transition team at www.mckeetransition.com/.