GR8-town

I thought this topic was photos of the day, not many pics? Just a lot of chatting. Here you go. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/3712106...983389e8c_b.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/3712106...48c106760_b.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/3712106...27b561a89_b.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/3712106...60eccae6f_b.jpg

The best transit system is one that is simple and easy to use. A light rail design is cool, however very expensive. The things that people like about this type of public transportation (light rail). Is that they run on a short loop and travel in one direction (simple). This could easily be replicated using say two bus routes. One that runs north along Monroe, from say as south as wealthy street to north as Boardwalk condos, than continue clockwise and east to GVSU (life-science)on Michigan street, then south to civic theater/heritage hill to St Marys then west to Grandville av. Then you do a similar route going south on Monroe to Wealthy,west to John Ball back to GVSU (Devos-ctr) to stock bridge area back across the river to Board walk then south onto Monroe again. Two clockwise loops running simultaneously with say 3 or 4 buses on each route. Then you paint the north bound buses red and the south bound buses blue to easily reconise the two routes. Now you have red buses running north and clockwise at 5 min. intervals,and blue buses running south and clockwise doing the same. With blue and red bus stop signs thought the city. The two routes would parallel each other along Monroe but in opposite directions for easy transfers. And if you really wanted to get carried away you could paint dashed colored lines (red-blue) at the curbs to mark the route. Now something like this would be so easy to follow and understand that my grandmother who has never been on a bus would be able to figure it out or say a traveler/conventioner who has no clue. Or me!

Future GR skyline. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/3587896...b7aa7a456_o.png

Check out page 45 on there pdf. http://humanmedicine.msu.edu/WorkPapers.pdf Bingo.

Looks like Christman has worked with MSU on other projects. http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/1817/content.htm http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Christman+MSU

I allways wondered who was going to use all of that 700,000 sq feet at the RDV project. I guess we know now. I also wonder if Christman sits on the board at MSU. they may have planned this years ago.

Maybe they have planned on using the west end of that RDV project all this time. Or WOODTV8 just don't know diddly. I thought they just bought land by the Bagel Bean.

No luck for me ether.

How tall will the building structure itself be. Not the spire 318'. I have noticed that all of Spectrum exterior rendering links have been removed from there web site.