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Rapid Silver Line Tax Increase Retry is Full Speed Ahead

February 3, 2010

The ITP’s board meeting in December of 2009 had a discussion about the Rapid Silver Line. It’s clear that they are pressing full speed ahead with coming back to voters to raise taxes, again, for this failed and inefficient project. You can read the meeting’s minutes here.

Mr. Jaiyeoba gave an update on the Silver Line bus rapid transit project and the environmental assessment process. A Power Point presentation was given describing the project, where we are today, potential impacts being considered in the EA, results of the recent traffic analysis and the next steps in the project.

We are working to get a copy of the Power Point presentation referenced in the minutes for more detail. Our guess is that they will try again either this May or in May of 2011.

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    Rapid Silver Line Vote Fails

    May 7, 2009

    The Rapid’s Silver Line proposal failed at the ballot box on May 5th. The vote was 53% against and 47% in favor. This is the first time in many years that a tax increase request from The Rapid was turned down. More significantly, of the six cities in the ITP region (Grand Rapids, East Grand [...]

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    Rapid Silver Line Vote No Flyers – Download and Print

    April 21, 2009

    We now have available “Vote No” flyers available for everyone to download and print. There are four per page, making it easy to leave these reminders with friends and neighbors. The flyer simply states: “Vote NO on the $70 million bus tax increase on Tuesday, May 5th. For more information, visit www.itpwatch.org.”
    >> Download the flyer [...]

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  • The Rapid’s New Silver Line – Another Waste of Taxpayer Money

    April 13, 2009

    We urge the voters of Grand Rapids, East Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Walker, Wyoming, and Grandville to vote NO on the Tuesday, May 5th ballot. The ITP is asking for another tax increase to fund the so-called “Silver Line” bus route. Why should you vote NO?

    The Silver Line will actually increase congestion on Division Avenue because [...]

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    Rapid NTD Fact Sheets

    April 1, 2009

    These fact sheets are compiled by the National Transit Database. These datasheets are a major source of information on the true costs of the operations of the ITP/Rapid. ITP does not publish this information on their web site.

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    See also The Rapid’s full budgets – the ones that they don’t post on their web site.

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