Today, the final Indyconnect plan was released for public review. The plan released today, is the plan that officials will be taking with them when they go to the statehouse in the 2012 short session. Included in this plan are pieces of the former two releases but with some notable changes. Chief among those changes, …
A lot of the recent controversy here at Urban Indy has revolved around the unannounced road diet that Indy seems to have went on this year. During this construction season alone, a lane has been wiped clean and converted to biking facilities along 46th street, 62nd/Broad Ripple Ave, Shelby St & Madison Ave, Washington …
I was contacted earlier this summer by a friend of mine and approached about crafting some coverage for Lawrence Village at the Fort. For those of you who are not in the know, the old Fort Benjamin Harrison has been undergoing a reuse of sorts guided by the Ft. Benjamin Harrison Reuse Authority. What …
Last week, guide lines went down on Broad Ripple Ave between the village and Keystone Avenue. I knew that the thermostriped permanent ones would not be far behind. Well, the new lines are down and my initial expectations for what the corridor would look like have been exceeded. The new design has caused a small …
Residents of Indianapolis, I have a simple question to ask that is rooted in some deep philosophical debates. What kind of city do you want to live in? Is it the type of city where you get in your car to go get everything? Is it the type of city where you can walk out …
Sorry for the lack of wallpapers the past couple months. Something about a family, full time job, 19 month old, Calculus, Statistics and travelling to DC got me down…. anyway, I tried something totally different this time around. I took the original from Georgia Street looking north on an alleyway between Pennsylvania and Meridian. Hope …
I have the privilege of showing some photographs at the Mass Ave Wine Shoppe for the month of November. I have assembled a small set of photos from the last year worth of travelling around the country. My aim is to help expose people to the superior transit systems that appear around the country. Even in …
I reported a couple of weeks ago that Indianapolis had received a grant from the FTA to study “bus rapid transit” on the central corridors comprised of Washington Street east/west and some combination of streets north/south from Carmel, through downtown to the University of Indianapolis on the south side. This post attempts to explore the possible …
The Indianapolis DPW contracted this job out during 2011. I am not 100% sure of the overall scope involved since I have seen reconstruction of 46th from College Ave all the way to Emerson and even beyond that. For the purposes of this post, I am going to focus on the section that is bounded …
As a resident of the Hoosier state at this point in time you would have to be living in a 60’s era air raid bunker if you have not heard about the I-69 project in southwest Indiana. If you have been in a bunker, let me briefly recap. The State of Indiana is constructing a …