Editorial: Look who's blazing public transit path [[Grand Rapids)

[BrushStart]

Bham, have you even been to Grand Rapids in the past 3 years? I wouldn't say they are leaving Metro Detroit "in the dust" per se, but they are doing things right over there and I am proud of Michigan's second city. GR has definitely embraced the measures necessary to see their city into the 21st century. It is cosmopolitan, developing, and overall feels like a much larger city than it actually is. GR is a great town destined for great things if they keep on the path of cooperation and progress that their metro residents have seemed to embrace.

[1KielsonDrive]

PS: I wish GR well. I've had an ongoing relationship with GR going back to the 70's when I assisted college friends in running a 'head shop' on Plainfield NE and crashed on College Street. Those were the days when the cops shadowed us because we had long hair, stopped into the shop for impromptu searches and bragged up their department as being the best vice, morality squad in the nation. Based, I guess, on the fact that they harassed a bunch of young, struggling hippie entrepeneurs. Regardless, I always liked the city, even though it wasn't the vibrant city then that it is becoming now.