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    Saugatuck Chain Ferry

    3.9 (10 reviews)
    Closed 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

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    The novelty of the ferry (only one of two left in the world) is cancelled out by indifferent and fratastic staff. Bus drivers in major cities are more kind. Still, the ferry offers a unique way to explore - just don't expect professional service.

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    MAX Macatawa Area Express - MAX Transit provides fixed-route and reserved ride bus service to the Holland/Zeeland MI community!

    MAX Macatawa Area Express

    3.3(3 reviews)
    10.7 mi

    The only grip I have is this heavy set driver he doesn't pull up enough close too the curb it's a…read moregap climbing up on the bus especially for a senior if you're not careful you could hurt yourself stepping up into the gap and I mean he's normally quite apart from the curb this should be looked into he's one of the morning drivers before 12 other than that no complaints

    I don't use the MAX busses on a regular basis, but I do use them from time to time. Coming from…read moreChicago I'm not thrilled with the Holland bus system, but realistically they do the best they can for a small town with limited public interest in using public transportation. Over the last 5 years or so MAX has certainly improved by adding more fixed bus routes and I thank them for that. My only gripe would be that a couple of times the drivers have seemed very insistent that nobody could be standing while the bus is moving. I understand they don't want anybody to get hurt during sudden stops, but come on in major cities all over the U.S. people do stand on moving busses every day and survive just fine. I'm not opposed to sitting on a bus, but if I (I'm not the smallest person around) have a choice or standing and having a bit of breathing room or sitting and being crammed in next to another person I'll choose standing everyday. TIP: If you have a red, white and blue medicare card showing you receive Medicare benefits you can ride the fixed route busses for free so that's a nice money saver. Just show the bus driver your red, white and blue medicare card and ride to your destination for free. I know this is the case on the fixed route busses, but I do not know if it's the same on the reserved MAX busses or not.

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    Harbor Trolley System

    Harbor Trolley System

    2.9(10 reviews)
    28.2 mi

    My comments are regarding the 2 Harbor Trolley lines that operate during the Summer in the Spring…read moreLake/Ferrysburg/Fruitport/Grand Haven area. The way it is set up is that there are two trolley loops that operate. One on each side of the bridge, but both lines do pick-up and drop off at the Spring Lake Holiday Inn parking lot. So you can transfer there to continue your commute from one side of the bridge to the other. The trolleys cover popular places on each side of the bridge SL loop called Laker stops at North Ottawa Beach, North Ottawa Pier, Coast Guard Park, A La Mode Ice Cream and Pamona Park. The GH loop called Bucaneer stops at Grand Haven State Park and the City Beach. There is no cost to the riders. The service runs all day and into the evening. Now on paper this all looks great. You can get from Fruitport to Grand Haven beaches and it is free. Here's the downside....it is not commuter friendly. There is no timetable, no schedule and no driver accountability. This is a tax payer/government funded agency. Non-profit. Here is my story: My group is in Fruitport and decide we want to visit the GH beach. Someone suggests we take the trolleys. We head over to Pamona Park. We ask someone there how often the trolley comes by. We're told about every hour. We then asked did you see it when it last came by? She says it was there about 45 minutes ago when she arrived at the park. So we thought we'd only have to wait 15 minutes. Unfortunately we had to wait 40 minutes. When we were seated in the air conditioned vehicle I asked the driver how long a loop takes, he says the SL route is about an hour. When I told him we thought we were there more than an hour, he explained he "took a break." I also asked is there any timetable, he casually explained...."no, it's just when we get the loop completed. Sometimes we take a break and sometimes we break off the loop, so times vary. Okay, I'm used to public transportation in Chicago, GR and Detroit where drivers do their best to stick to a timetable. Not here apparently. From the park to A La Mode, the ride was probably 10 minutes. I then asked when we will be at Holiday Inn so we could transfer to the other trolley. He said probably 30 minutes. It was at that point we decided to walk to Holiday Inn instead. It took us about 12 minutes or so to hike over the SL bridge and wait for the Grand Haven trolley. Half hour later a trolley finally shows up. Only thing....it was the trolley we were on 30 minutes ago! We talked to our driver and he said "Grand Haven should be there shortly." Another 20 minutes goes by and the GH trolley finally shows up. We ride it into Grand Haven, it stops at the State Park and then our destination the city beach. Total travel and wait time: 2 hours! We took an Uber back.

    Well , two years in a row- no trolley. Very poor information via phone or website and I am soooo…read moredisappointed. We made a special trip out here because it looked like it was operational this year

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    Carroll Avenue Station

    Carroll Avenue Station

    3.5(4 reviews)
    73.6 mi

    There's no real station here, only a little shed you can get out of the rain in... and the vending…read moremachines for the tickets are clear across the parking lot. But the plus is that there is a TON of parking both at the "station" and across the street in the overflow parking lot. It also seems to be WAY safer than the other Michigan City station just down the road.

    The Carroll Avenue Station on the South Shore Line is the quintessential small-town train stop. I…read morewould call it a station, and it technically is, but you hardly realize it when you're here. Everything about the station makes you think it's 1936. There's the tiny building filled with uncomfortable chairs. There's the ticket agent who's neither friendly nor rude. There are the tearful reunions at the tracks. OK, I made that last one up, but tearful reunions in the muddy parking lot doesn't sound right. One time when I was visiting South Bend, the train schedule worked out (or didn't work out) so that I wouldn't be able to get all the way to South Bend in time to spend time with my dear friend Jen W. So she very generously offered to meet me in Michigan City. This was when Indiana still didn't have Daylight Saving Time (and it was confusing because the state has two time zones, and one of them does change), and because my friend lived in Granger, she got here an hour early. Our reunion was grand, and teary on her end. We were so engrossed in our conversation that we didn't realize she had made a wrong turn on the way back to South Bend. I really like this station, especially because it reminds me of Jen W. and our Michiana misadventures. OK, they weren't misadventures, but alliteration is fun when you're in the Midwest. Oh, and for you geography buffs, Michigan City, Indiana, is not in the region known as Michiana. How ridiculous is that? About as ridiculous as East Chicago being in Indiana, I would say.

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