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Ground Breaking Possibilities: Indy’s New Downtown Transit Center

Thursday September 25, city leaders, members of the IndyGo executive board and MPO will hold a ground-breaking ceremony for the new Downtown Transit Center.  Situated on the Southeast corner of Washington and Delaware, the transit center will be the new hub for buses that travel downtown.  This edifice will be a much needed and welcomed …

Downtown Transit Center Design open for bidding

For years, Indianapolis has suffered from the lack of a central gathering site for all of it’s routes which travel through the downtown area. Currently, all routes make a loop through downtown, informally known as the corral, where the sidewalks act as defacto  transit centers. The stops are difficult to figure out and transfers can …

Where should a DT Transit Center be located?

According to the IndyGo Comprehensive Operational Analysis that was covered in depth by Kevin, a downtown transit center should be used to try and organize all of the routes that converge on downtown Indianapolis. Per the report, a robust savings in operational cost could be gained while preserving on street traffic versus the current location’s most …

A Map of The 2016 Transit Referendum, Correlated with the Presidential Vote

I’ve always tried to avoid the topic of politics on this blog. I’ve long felt that the core values of Urban Indy could appeal to a wide spectrum of the general public. With that in mind, I decided it still would be interesting to see how many Indianapolis precincts split their tickets in 2016. A …

Bus Rapid Transit Could be a Game Changer for Indy Neighborhoods

Indianapolis has largely succeeded in transforming its downtown from a sleepy no-man’s land to a place where people want to be. It’s not perfect, but it’s a downtown that can stand up among its peers. Throughout all of this focus on downtown, Indy’s neighborhoods have largely maintained a similar trajectory with regards to their built …

Final Transit Vote Monday Evening

A reminder for everyone who cares about mass transit in Indy: please come out to the Indy City County Building this Monday evening at 6:30 to greet the councilors as they enter into the public assembly room and then at 7 for the public hearing portion. As long as everything goes according to plan, this …

Transit & the High Cost of Auto Orientation in Indy

  Final vote meeting details: February 27: Full-council meeting – vote on final adoption (7:00 p.m. in Public Assembly Room) I want to first call your attention to contacting your city councilor, especially if you live in a district where your councilor hasn’t made up his or her mind yet about the transit plan. Tell them …

Important Transit Meeting Tonight

  Just a reminder: for those of us who know how good the IndyConnect mass transit plan is and how vital it is for the future success of Indianapolis in so many different ways, there is a very important council meeting to show your support at tonight at 5:30 in room 260 in the City County …

UPDATE: Expected Timeline for Transit at the City-County Council

After passing the referendum in Indianapolis with relative ease, the mass transit issue now moves to the City-County Council, which is first introduced tonight at 7 pm @ the City County Building. Here is the tentative schedule: 1/9–Introduced at council meeting and assigned to Rules & Public Policy Committee (7pm Assembly Room) 1/30 at 7pm for …

Mobilizing in Support for Mass Transit

The next month will be absolutely critical for supporters of Indianapolis Transit. First, they need to pass the budget for 2017. The budget didn’t clear a Committee Hearing last month in a surprise move. Fortunately there is still time to save the budget, with a hearing scheduled at the full Council next Monday at 7pm at the …

Matt Impink on Transit in Indy

Come join us this Thursday, August 25th at 7 PM to hear a presentation made by Matt Impink of the Indy Chamber as he covers the background and future of transit in Indianapolis. Matt will be covering the current facts about transit in Indy as well as the talking about the Indy Connect transit plan for …

New Poll Shows Support for Mass Transit Referendum in Marion County

Indy’s Congregation Action Network commissioned a poll for the upcoming Mass Transit referendum. The results are encouraging to supporters, however I’m going to take this with a grain of salt. This is an organization that supports transit, and not an independent media source. Still, I figured it would be good to link it here in …

College Avenue in King Park: A Street in Transition

This time, the neighborhood won. The long battle over the gas station at the corner of 22nd and College has been dropped (page 57) in favor of a restaurant: This particular one will feature outdoor seating and a bicycle rack. It will renovate an old masonry structure, while removing a smaller structure which has outlived its …

Bus Rapid Transit: The Red Line

Yesterday, Indy Connect made a big splash on local media with the public announcement of a $2 million dollar grant for engineering along the proposed Red Line from Carmel to Greenwood.  This post intends to give a quick rundown of the information that we know, as well as provide the public a peek into how …

IndyGo Transit Hub

Minutes after the closing remarks were complete and the last of the press packed up their vans, we were left with a positive message to Live Indy. Mayor Ballard, a long time proponent of a stronger urban center, reinforced his position by declaring war on an urban population in flux. After decades of seeing people …

Encourage Transit for Better Development Proposals

Recently, a proposal to knock down 2 houses on College Avenue just north of Kessler Boulevard in Broad Ripple was denied by the Metropolitan Development Commission.  This denial happened after the Planning Department had encouraged the petitioners to go back to the drawing board a few months ago.  Here is a look at the site …

Transit Day at the State House Review

On Wednesday, I attended the Transit Day Rally.  It was interesting to feel the energy inside the State House, as the confident group convened in a hall on the 2nd floor of the building.  The leaders of the event were careful in pointing out that this was the largest groundswell of support that transit has …

Transit Day at The State House

  I have registered to attend the State House tomorrow for the Indiana Citizen’s Alliance for Transit’s Day at the State House.  I hope to see other readers of the blog there, starting at the Indiana History Center at 10 AM.  I will have a report afterwards of my impressions of the event.

HB1011 – Mass Transit – in Committee today

In case you have missed the blast of emails, tweets, major local media and others, today, HB1011, the Mass Transit bill, gets a hearing in Roads and Transportation. It will be in the House Chambers and starts at 330. Supporters are urged to attend. If you cannot, there will be a live feed of it on the …

Is Indy Doing Enough to Prepare for Improved Transit?

A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to hitch a ride home from work from the far NE side of the Indy metro region where I currently work. My ride dropped me, along with my bicycle, near the 71st & Binford Ave area. Though the trek was a little long, I was able to …

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