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Transit improvements
What is the next big transit enhancement or project you would like to see happen in Grand Rapids? Think beyond infrastructure. Consider routes, maps, staff issues perhaps?
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More north-south routes. that don't terminate at central station. Suggestions:
3-mile & Wilson to Rivertown Crossings (Connecting Walker and Grandville)
Plainfield & Northland Drive to Davenport Lettinga Campus (Running down East Beltline, hitting the commerce parks along the way)
Plainfield & Northland Drive to Division & 68th, connecting Plainfield and Cutlerville. (And letting me drop my car off at my mechanic on Plainfield without needing another car to get home...)
Something connecting Alpine Meijer, Comstock Park, Belding and Plainfield & Northland would be good, too, if Plainfield & Northland Drive becomes a route nexus...and the path is undeveloped enough that it would make a good express shuttle.
My wife points out that a second station on the north side of town, on the scale of Central Station, would serve as a good connector for Plainfield, Belding, Rockford, Cedar Springs, Plainfield...so if Northland Drive and Plainfield becomes a nexus, routes could pretty well fan out from there.
Finally, I believe I heard that 84th & 131 was going to get a mall. Said mall might make a good southern fanout point for Cutlerville and Byron Center.
I totally agree about North/South routes which don't terminate at the central station. I'd love to be able to travel from Knapp/Fuller to Eastown direct.
I'm not sure a poll or call-for-comments here is that effective. What percentage of RAPID riders read the Rapidian? I've been suprised that many fellow-riders did not know that the $2.50 ArtPrice bands provided free transit for ~3 weeks of free transportation - they were still using thier fare cards. Many riders are just not in the loop of people who talk about this kind of thing. I'm not sure what the best mechanism is for polling needs and desires, but I doubt it is a hip website.