Year archives: 2013

Refined Green Line Downtown Alternatives

Green Line - Ft Wayne Option 2

The Citizen’s Advisory Committee for the Green Line met recently and presented the latest findings for downtown alignments. I wrote about these 4 alignments in February when details were in the preliminary state of analysis. With some firm rails to run on, in depth study on each alignment has proceeded. The study has paused for …

May 2013 Wallpaper

May 2013 Wallpaper (image credit: Curt Ailes)

Hope everyone is doing well! Enjoy this month’s wallpaper, taken from the top of an anonymous downtown structure. Can anyone guess where it was taken from? 2560 x 1600 1280 x 853 1280 x 1024 1366 x 768

New Project Approved for College and North

The Indianapolis Business Journal’s Property Lines blog has posted an article about the approval of a new large multi-building project at the corner of College Avenue and North Street.  This article has plenty of information on it, but Urban Indy has been fortunate enough to receive additional renderings of the project from Craig McCormick, principal …

Empty check-in at IND.

I was torn between posting my latest here or on my personal site, American Dirt.  While most Indy-themed articles end up finding their way here, this one scrutinized airports in a way that I usually only apply to my personal site.  So I’ll paraphrase it here, but the full post is there on Dirt. It’s …

HB1011 relegated to Study Committee

IndyGo bus passing the Statehouse (image credit: Curt Ailes)

Urban Indy has kept up to the minute with the goings-on of HB1011, mass transit, which was introduced in the Indiana House this year. Friday April 26th, it was reported that Representative Jerry Torr, author of the bill, had signed off on the Senate adopted version of the bill; that being all referendum authorizing language …

IndyGo’s Frequency Maps

As one of the premiere transit blogs, Human Transit has been beating the drum of frequency maps for transit.  These maps prioritize how often buses run, where traditional transit maps show each line to be on equal footing.  I had even thought of creating a crude version for IndyGo that features their new lines that have …

Trip report: Atlanta

MARTA Linbergh Station (image credit: Curtis Ailes)

Last week, my family took a week’s vacation to the south and I was lucky enough to convince my wife to ride Atlanta’s MARTA subway system. It was after all, my birthday so I did not have to work very hard at it. We were passing through on a Sunday morning and after checking the …

Jane Jacobs Walk with Big Car

Urban Indy is proud to sponsor an upcoming Jane Jacobs walk in the Garfield Park neighborhood with the Big Car organization.  Indy’s version of the nationwide initiative takes place on May 4th at 10 AM.  Registration and more information for the event can be found at this website.  I’ll be taking part in the 3 …

One-way spur streets downtown: not exactly spurring growth.

That most American cities suffer from a plethora of one-way streets is a blog topic in and of itself.  After all, just last week I revealed on my personal blog how Houston’s vast downtown only has five streets with two-way sections, and not one of these streets completely transects the city center.  The desirability of one-way …

HB1011 passes Senate

Indiana Statehouse (image credit: Curtis Ailes)

This week, the “summer study” version of HB1011 passed out of the Indiana Senate 39-11. The bill varies wildly when compared to the House version which was passed last month with bi-partisan support, which would authorize a referendum in 2014 for Marion and Hamilton Counties to raise income taxes by 0.3% which would be dedicated …