Planning to move more people more places faster: You in?
January 20, 2010
Planning of mass transit in the Greater Grand Rapids area is on the front burner right now. Even the casual observer knows that the city's downtown has undergone a remarkable revitalization over the past decade, and that has spurred more interes
Planning of mass transit in the Greater Grand Rapids area is on the front burner right now. Even the casual observer knows that the city's downtown has undergone a remarkable revitalization over the past decade, and that has spurred more interest in living, working, and being entertained at the city's core. That fact alone brings mass transit into focus. Add into that the growth of higher education options, the continued development of retail developments on the city's outskirts and an increasing awareness of the environmental impact of transportation, and mass transit rises higher and higher on people's priority lists.
Since the Mobile Metro 2020 (MM2020) Plan was created to guide the area's mass transit in 1998, transit ridership has more than doubled even as the city's population has decreased slightly. A dozen years ago, 4.2 million trips were made via Grand Rapids' bus system; last year The Rapid provided 9.3 million rides.
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Since the Mobile Metro 2020 (MM2020) Plan was created to guide the area's mass transit in 1998, transit ridership has more than doubled even as the city's population has decreased slightly. A dozen years ago, 4.2 million trips were made via Grand Rapids' bus system; last year The Rapid provided 9.3 million rides.
Read the full article on Rapid Growth
