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Residents don’t want Greyhound buses in Trotwood

RTA, Greyhound officials have discussed moving hub from Dayton.

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By Doug Page, Staff Writer 10:56 PM Sunday, April 26, 2009

Residents opposing a proposed move of Greyhound bus operations to the city’s RTA hub say it’s a matter of safety and it will disrupt a neighborhood.

Several citizen groups are fighting the proposed move from downtown Dayton to the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority hub at the intersection of Denlinger and Shiloh Springs, just east of Salem Avenue. They are threatening to start holding prayer vigils and protests.

“We want someone to put a halt to this,” said Flora Northern, president of the Broadmoor I Neighborhood Association. “We want someone to say this shouldn’t be.”

“We’ve tried to explain that mass transit is a legally permitted use for the property,” City Manager Michael Lucking said Friday, April 24. “Their discussion needs to be with RTA.”

The RTA hub handles about 294 buses daily. Greyhound would run around 20 buses daily if an agreement is reached to move from its downtown Dayton location.

Even though RTA legally has the right to bring Greyhound to Trotwood, resident Janice Chinn told the City Council Monday, April 20, “It doesn’t make it right. It’s not fair for one entity to be allowed to change 26,000 plus residents’ life – just because it’s legal.”

RTA Executive Director Mark Donaghy said, “The comments made by the citizens of Trotwood are very distressing, more than I’ve heard, seen or experienced even with regard to the Greyhound station in Dayton. The perceptions of the citizens in Trotwood and what happens at Greyhound bus stations or the people who ride Greyhound are horribly mistaken and it is very wrong.”

RTA and Greyhound officials have been discussing the move for more than one year. If an agreement can be reached, RTA has earmarked $782,000 for renovations to the Trotwood hub.

Contributing writer Toni Coleman added to this report.

Contact this reporter at

(937) 225-2290 or

dpage

@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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Why is it that Karon is the ONLY person that seems to make sense?

I Heart Karon
3:37 PM, 4/27/2009

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Move the Greyhound hub out by Dayton Int'l Airport! What's wrong with that? Maybe the airport wouldn't shut down at 10pm if there were people coming and going!
Heck, the Dayton Airport Inn is 50% unusable! Knock it down and build the Greyhound hub.
Just don't let the city be in charge of maintaining the property, look how well they cared for the Dayton Airport Inn. What a joke.

Daytonian
3:37 PM, 4/27/2009

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Location at the airport would enable people from towns on the Greyhound route to access the airport without having to get someone to drive them if they are 20 or more miles away. Otherwise keep it downtown. Trotwood location would be insane.

Bobo
2:42 PM, 4/27/2009

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I like the fact that it's "a matter of safety" because Trotwood is known for their safe neighborhoods!

MV
2:40 PM, 4/27/2009

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a city the size of dayton should have the greyhound terminal located in the downtown area. it makes no sense to move it to trotwood or any other suburb. i do not know what dayton or the downtown dayton parternship plans to do with the vacated greyhound site, but i think the whole idea is very customer unfriendly.

fay
1:19 PM, 4/27/2009

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