2021

A ghost bike on Indy’s South Side: an outlier or a signifier of greater road safety needs?

Ghost bikes aren’t so common on the south side. Because bikes aren’t that common. But a certain memorial near Southport, and the ethnicity of the victim, suggest that there’s more revealed by this particular tragedy. And a powerful case for better bicycle safety measures along Madison Avenue.

Branding the border crossing: when one side of the boundary builds a landmark…and absorbs all the monumentality.

At the border between Indianapolis and Fishers on Fall Creek Road is a roundabout with a prominent nautical landmark celebrating the City of Fishers. But nowhere to be seen is a reference to Indianapolis, the city that helped make Fishers a thriving suburb.