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I thought this topic was photos of the day, not many pics?
Just a lot of chatting.
Here you go.
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Most of the people I've talked to here in GR don't think about adding more lanes and such, they really seem excited about BRT. In a sense, having lanes on the road with that little white diamond is a sign of us starting to hit the big time, and a symbol of us moving forward, and everybody really seems to like that.
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!
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Yeah, a little confusing. Sounds like the whole RDV development will be MSU? I wonder if this means a redesign?
I think they are putting the Med School in the right place but it poses an interesting question. If they already thought the market could handle 4 new medical buildings, does that mean they will replace this sq. footage in another development (maybe next to GVSU and the other property MSU just bought)?
Joe
Looks like Christman has worked with MSU on other projects. http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/1817/content.htm
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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.
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.
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WOOD-TV also said it will be located at Michigan and Division.
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.
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I have the hard-copy of the E-packet from back in September that has some detailed drawings of the elevations as well as each floor. Although the writing is too small to read, using a little extrapolation basing the needle at 318', the top of the tower looks to be about 60' shorter, or about 258'. I'm just erring a little higher.
(copied from RH thread)
I've never been able to get the e-packet to download (I constantly get error messages), but maybe you can get it to download GR8-town:
http://www.ci.grand-rapids.mi.us//download...4a8f8a4b0e5.pdf
(click on 100 Michigan)
I can get through the first 10 pages, but then the plan pages crap out on me.
No luck for me ether.
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Just imagine when the shiny new cancer center is sitting next to it. I actually wished bad things upon this building years ago. I'm glad to see it is coming down soon(ish).
Joe
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.
Parking problem downtown - too much of it? Not enough?
in Grand Rapids
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