- 9 p.m., Sundays are between around 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. To aid scheduling, some routes "interline". This means that a specific vehicle will serve multiple routes as part of its scheduled run by that driver. For example, on weekdays, route 7 arrives at Central Station and continues as the 15. During the school year, additional routes are used to serve students in the Grand Rapids Public School (GRPS) district. As of October 2005, there is a GRPS shuttle to after school programs at the downtown David D. Hunting Branch of the YMCA. Fares Single fares are $1.75. Passengers can pay their fare in cash or by using a Wave card, a reloadable smart card. The Rapid ended the sale of paper tickets and passes online, at Rapid Central Station, and on buses in November 2019. Wave cards are tapped at the reader on the buses or at a Silver Line station to pay fare. The first tap of a Wave card gives a passenger 1 hour and 45 minutes to ride wherever and however they want. Subsequent taps during this time frame do not charge the card. A transfer time expiration show on the reader after each tap of the Wave card. Passengers paying in cash or with an existing paper ticket can obtain transfer tickets for use on up to three additional routes over the following two hours. They may not be used on the same route twice. A single fare ticket issued on the BRT can be used as a transfer on other routes. Children under 42" in height do not pay fare. A yellow stripe on the hand rail by the entrance denotes the height limit. Contracted Services DASH The Rapid operates two bus routes on behalf of the City of Grand Rapids, called Downtown Area Shuttle, or DASH. The routes are free to all passengers, operating every eight minutes, seven days a weeks. DASH routes were revamped in 2016 and again in 2018. From September 1 the North DASH straightened its route along Monroe, rather than along Ottawa Avenue. The South route was effectively merged into the West DASH, covering the west side DASH lots, Pearl Street, via Division and Fulton to Ionia covering the Arena South lots, and then south to the Downtown Market and Wealthy Street Silver Line station. Service to the Cook-DeVos Center previously provided by the Hill DASH has long