The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) commended a bus driver for preventing a man from jumping off a bridge to commit suicide. The driver is being recognized for “exemplary compassion and selflessness” for intervening and saving the man’s life. “To say she went above and beyond is an understatement,” RIPTA’s chief executive officer, Scott Avedisian, said in a press statement. Operator Eldorada “Ellie” Giblin was driving the Route 33 bus on the Providence-East Providence line last month when she spotted a man who appeared to be contemplating leaping from the Henderson Bridge. She immediately stopped her bus and got out. “People just had their phones out and were taking pictures or video—It broke my heart,” she told the transit authority. “I told my passengers not to worry and that I would be right back.” When she approached the man, she asked him to come to her; then he cried, …