In the budget package signed yesterday by Governor Jennifer Granholm, Grand Rapids received $14 million from the state government to study improvements to the city’s mass transit system. The study will look at a variety of routine improvements as well as looking at the possibility of adding mass transit lines to the area’s transit system. Two mass transit lines that will be studied are between downtown Grand Rapids and the Ford International Airport and along Division Avenue from downtown to Cutlerville. The money will match federal grant dollars awarded for the study. The federal money will also keep Amtrak’s Pere Marquette line from Grand Rapids to Chicago running.
For more information on mass transit needs in the region, read the article “Citizens’ Transit Improvement Plan Released.”
