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The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) has released details about how a new flex zone will operate in Pascoag and Slatersville, along with other new winter bus schedules it is posting on its Web site as the planning department finalizes the bus runs.

The new schedules will go into effect on Jan. 17, according to RIPTA spokeswoman Karen D. Mensel.

The new flex zone will help RIPTA passengers who have relied on Bus 9 in the past to get to the Zambarano unit of Eleanor Slater Hospital in the northwest corner of Burrillville. That bus line, which was in danger of being cut altogether, will no longer run all the way out to Zambarano.

The new Bus 9 schedules -- both inbound to Providence and outbound -- have also been posted on RIPTA's Web site.

The flex zone will also allow passengers in the Burrillville and North Smithfield villages of Pascoag and Slatersville -- and points in between -- more flexibility in getting places by bus than they have currently had, according to RIPTA.

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