Appleton Transit Center

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Appleton Transit Center
Location	United States of America
Coordinates	44°15′48″N 88°24′21″W / 44.2634°N 88.40571°W / 44.2634; -88.40571Coordinates: 44°15′48″N 88°24′21″W / 44.2634°N 88.40571°W / 44.2634; -88.40571
Owned by	City of Appleton
Bus routes	15
Bus operators	Valley Transit Greyhound Lines
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	1 Adjacent parking ramp; 1 Adjacent parking lot
Bicycle facilities	Bike racks around station
Other information
Station code	APP
History
Opened	March 1, 1990 (1990-03-01)

The Appleton Transit Center is a bus terminus in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin, located at 100 East Washington Street (on the corner of Washington Street and Oneida Street).

Construction on the center by Valley Transit began on September 12, 1989, and service began on March 1, 1990. It was the first transit center built in Appleton. It has climate-controlled waiting rooms, public washrooms, a payphone with free direct line telephones to Valley Transit, and vending machines. The north side of the building is the location of the Greyhound Lines office. Additional benches are outside, where there are designated bus boarding bays in a traffic-free transfer area. The entire grounds are non-smoking.

Service[]

The Appleton Transit Center is the center of the Valley Transit system, as most bus routes terminate there. The northwest corner of the property is the boarding place for Greyhound buses, travelling between Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The center also sees service from . Through ticketing is available from Amtrak; the Amtrak station code for the center is APP.

2019 shooting incident[]

On May 15, 2019, the Appleton Police and Fire Departments and Gold Cross Ambulance were called to the Transit Center shortly after 5:30 pm for a medical call. After initial treatment, the patient, identified as 47-year-old Ruben Houston, showed a handgun to the response team and began walking towards the Appleton Public Library before firing rounds from the gun, killing firefighter Mitchell F. Lundgaard and injuring a police officer and a bystander.^[1][2]

References[]

External links[]

• Official page
• Amtrak's page

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