Today’s installment in our April-Fool’s week of transit follies deals with an agency that runs only buses, not trains. The Rapid, also known as the Interurban Transit Partnership, runs the bus service in the Grand Rapids, Michigan urban area (which covers five cities plus Grand Rapids).
On May 8, the transit agency will ask voters to renew the property tax that supports it. But the agency isn’t satisfied with a renewal; it wants an 18-percent increase in the tax. Does it deserve it?
