Transportation in Green Bay, Wisconsin - Green Bay Metro, Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot, Green Bay and Western Railroad (Paperback)

Chapters: Green Bay Metro, Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot, Green Bay and Western Railroad, Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Green Bay Metro, formerly known as Green Bay Transit until 2001, is the mass transit system found in the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. It also provides limited service in Ashwaubenon, Allouez, De Pere, and Bellevue. The transit system service method used in the Green Bay area is called a radial pulse system. The system is called radial because the layout of the routes brings all buses to the downtown transitway and then radiates them out in a spoke-like fashion to cover the service area. It is called a pulse system because all routes are timed to arrive at the downtown transitway at regular intervals, allowing for transfers with little or no waiting. This type of system has been in operation since 1937. The system does not operate on Sunday. From 1916 through 1972, the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS), a privately-owned utility company, provided streetcar and bus service in the Green Bay Metropolitan Area. In the late 1960s, bus ridership decreases combined with rising expenses forced WPS to reduce deficits by cutting back on service. Service cutbacks, in turn, contributed to further decreases in ridership and even greater revenue losses, resulting in a downward spiral of service, ridership, and revenue. In April 1972, WPS offered to sell the bus company to the city of Green Bay with an agreement to reimburse the city for the full purchase price of $270,000 in the form of an operating subsidy over a five-year period. In January 1973, WPS was granted the right to discontinue bus service in the Green Bay Metropolitan Area, at which time the city of Green Bay leased the bus system from WPS...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3063627