The final phase of the Michigan Avenue repaving project has finished with all the kind of crazy crossovers or Michigan lefts. The Clifford Street [Stapels] intersection has a left from Michigan east to N Clifford and west bound to the south from Michigan, but you have to go down under the overpass to make a left back onto east bound Michigan from Clifford which requires going through three more traffic lights both ways. I may not have described the intersection accurately, go by and see what you think.
Maybe y'all knew this already, but an email from the airport this morning linked to a (three years old) press release that mentioned they are building a pedestrian walkway all the way from the airport terminal to Grand River Boulevard:
Mentions it will be helpful for "individuals who utilize public transportation options". Well right now the bus goes right up to the terminal entrance. Perhaps this implies that, once the walkway is completed, that will end?
When we moved to East Lansing from previously living in St. Louis, actually, one thing I noticed was that the buses in St. Louis tended to stop on the major street and then you had to walk a little bit, and more often the buses in Lansing will crawl deep into the shopping center. A little bit of "slower pace of life" here vibes, obviously slows the buses down.
I did not know that. I can't complain about investing in infrastructure around there, having a sidewalk out to Grand River is a no-brainer regardless of whether bus service goes right to the terminal. That being said, I'd imagine that they will continue bus service directly to the terminal, it makes no sense not to.
Somewhat random here, but having just taken the train from East Lansing to Cincinnati and back (Amtrak's Blue Water and Cardinal), and having seen almost every station along the route, my impressions are:
1. The East Lansing station was almost certainly the newest and most-modern-looking of any station I encountered. Actually I suspect the major impression of people just passing through is "that looks different / new".
2. This is a little harder but, for the two trains I took, I suspect EL is the second busiest station, surpassed only by Chicago. Yes, I include Indianapolis and Cincinnati in that list, as both those cities are serviced by a slow, three-days-a-week train that arrives in the middle of the night.
3. The EL station has more waiting room inside the station than most (see #2), and a fair amount of rain-covered waiting room outside. However unfortunately the EL station is set back from the tracks further than most stations, and the walkway to the tracks is not rain-covered, nor is any area along the platform itself.
PS, pictured below, it's a little surreal to board a train at the Cincinnati station. You arrive at about 2:00 AM at this big, beautiful, almost completely empty Union Terminal. At peak, the station served something like 20 tracks at a time. Now it's a museum center with a tiny Amtrak waiting room in the back. Maybe 15 people boarded along with me very early this morning.
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https://www.flylansing.com/about/news/lansing-airport-receives-94-million-state-funding-roadway-improvements
Mentions it will be helpful for "individuals who utilize public transportation options". Well right now the bus goes right up to the terminal entrance. Perhaps this implies that, once the walkway is completed, that will end?
When we moved to East Lansing from previously living in St. Louis, actually, one thing I noticed was that the buses in St. Louis tended to stop on the major street and then you had to walk a little bit, and more often the buses in Lansing will crawl deep into the shopping center. A little bit of "slower pace of life" here vibes, obviously slows the buses down.
Somewhat random here, but having just taken the train from East Lansing to Cincinnati and back (Amtrak's Blue Water and Cardinal), and having seen almost every station along the route, my impressions are:
1. The East Lansing station was almost certainly the newest and most-modern-looking of any station I encountered. Actually I suspect the major impression of people just passing through is "that looks different / new".
2. This is a little harder but, for the two trains I took, I suspect EL is the second busiest station, surpassed only by Chicago. Yes, I include Indianapolis and Cincinnati in that list, as both those cities are serviced by a slow, three-days-a-week train that arrives in the middle of the night.
3. The EL station has more waiting room inside the station than most (see #2), and a fair amount of rain-covered waiting room outside. However unfortunately the EL station is set back from the tracks further than most stations, and the walkway to the tracks is not rain-covered, nor is any area along the platform itself.
PS, pictured below, it's a little surreal to board a train at the Cincinnati station. You arrive at about 2:00 AM at this big, beautiful, almost completely empty Union Terminal. At peak, the station served something like 20 tracks at a time. Now it's a museum center with a tiny Amtrak waiting room in the back. Maybe 15 people boarded along with me very early this morning.