Kenny Uong
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Vietnamese American • Los Angeles 🌴 ➡️ Providence ⚓️ • Family Caregiver❤️ • Transit rider & advocate 🚌🚇🚆 • Views are my own!!
Providence, RI
Joined February 2016
Continue calling @GovDanMcKee @DanMcKeeRI’s office at 401-222-2080 and demand full funding for RIPTA!. RIPTA’s Board of Directors could meet anytime soon and make a decision regarding proposed service cuts!!. Transit is essential. Don’t throw riders under the bus.🚨🚌
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RT @MikeCohea: Sakonnet Lighthouse in Little Compton, RI taking a pounding this afternoon from huge waves generated by Hurricane Erin churn….
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RT @_KennyUong_: Comparing transit trip distances: these two trips both take about 1 hour and 43 mins. & require two buses! 🚌. 1st pic: Fro….
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Can't believe that my family moved from the region home to the second largest city in the US all the way to the smallest state in the US!
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Comparing transit trip distances: these two trips both take about 1 hour and 43 mins. & require two buses! 🚌. 1st pic: From the heart of my hometown (Downtown Glendale) to DT Culver City 🏙️. 2nd pic: From the heart of my current city (DT Providence) to Galilee in Narragansett🌊
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RT @umichvoter: The redistricting wars will likely end with 8 more Republican seats . 5 TX 🔴. 4 FL 🔴. 2 OH 🔴. 1 IN 🔴. 1 MO 🔴. 5 CA 🔵. Texa….
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RT @schneider: Here’s @MayorOfLA talking about how she changed ED1 because developers were going to build too much housing. Not an exagge….
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And the D Line extension from Wilshire/Western in Koreatown to Wilshire/La Cienega in Beverly Hills is opening later this year (or early next year??). Koreatown is the densest neighborhood in the city of LA!
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RT @IanDonnis: ICYMI - Congressional cut of funds means buyouts -- and potentially layoffs -- for public media in Rhode Island https://t.co….
thepublicsradio.org
Employees of the joint organization that operates The Public’s Radio and Rhode Island PBS are being offered voluntary buyouts due to the recent loss of $1.1 million in annual federal funding. “This...
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Right?! LA Metro’s newest light rail extension (A Line to Pomona) is opening in four weeks!!.
Right now LA Metro is spending billions on the largest transit expansion in the US, and yet at every turn, the city of LA undercuts that investment by banning any new housing from going up near the stations. And all this in a city with arguably America's worst housing shortage!.
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RT @MSearlesWeather: From @NBC10 viewer Judy on Block Island. This is the Wednesday evening ferry coming into the Island. Doesn't look fun!….
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RT @ChrisTokita: "Unintended consequences" like. building more housing near transit in a city with a massive housing shortage?. Los Angel….
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RT @Globe_RI: Commentary: After years of underfunding RIPTA, it will take political leadership and a forward-looking funding model to stren….
bostonglobe.com
After years of underfunding RIPTA, it will take political leadership and a forward-looking funding model to strengthen the system, write Grow Smart RI’s executive director and RI Hospitality Associ...
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RT @RIPTA_RI: #RiderOfTheWeek Val started riding RIPTA on her commute to downtown Providence. Now retired, she rides to appointments, relig….
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RT @berkie1: In 2011, a stretch of I-195 that ran through the heart of Providence was demolished, freeing up 26-acres of Downtown adjacent….
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.@RIPTA_RI bus stops across from Warwick City Hall and Cumberland Town Hall. From Apponaug to Valley Falls, RIPTA will take you there! 🚌🚏🏛️ @PicozziForMayor @CumberlandMayor
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From NEARI: Let’s save RIPTA!.
neari.org
Support students and working Rhode Islanders by urging the Governor and RIPTA Board to fund critical bus routes
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RT @_KennyUong_: Teachers/educators: If your students showed up late to class because their bus was delayed, arrived late, or never came, h….
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RT @_KennyUong_: Continue calling @GovDanMcKee @DanMcKeeRI’s office at 401-222-2080 and demand full funding for RIPTA!. RIPTA’s Board of Di….
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