On July 5th from 6 to 8 pm, the Mayor is announcing the kickoff of a new program known as Indy Rezone at the Central Library. The website and facebook page are under maintenance right now, but this program could be the start of something huge for the city. Urban Indy hopes to use this …
There has been significant progress on the 62nd street multi-use trail since the last update. The path is now graded halfway through the neighborhood which for imaginative purposes means, trail construction is now snaking it’s way eastward through the neighborhood. The first layer of pavement has been laid along the Glendale Town Center, with what …
The City County Council is considering a motion that would adopt a Complete Streets ordinance. This ordinance would encourage transportation projects that would allow for safe passage for all modes of travel. A good example from my own history is located on the south side, where I used to live when I first moved here …
Here is this week’s update on the 62nd street multi use trail taking shape on Indianapolis’ northside. A prior update to this project can be viewed here. The work currently taking place is adjacent to the Glendale Town Center and is removing a single lane of automobile traffic on the eastbound side of 62nd street. …
As construction moves forward, I will provide updates as I can get them. This week started simply with a dirt trench graded on the south side of 62nd street. As of Thursday, there are two curbs that define what I assume to be, a grass median between the trail and the roadway. Nothing is happening …
Last week, INDOT commenced work on I-69 at the interchange with state road 37 and 116th street, on Indianapolis’ NE side. According to INDOT’s page on the project, work is being conducted, “To alleviate the existing bottleneck at the I-69 interchange at 116th Street/State Road 37 (SR 37), the current design will be reconfigured.”  The work will …
After 7 long years of fundraising and background legal work, the Irvington streetscape project kicked off yesterday.  Photos of the groundbreaking can be seen via the Irvington Development Organization’s facebook page. This project will help reclaim Washington Street for pedestrians in the neighborhood, which has seen a good deal of new locally-owned businesses open in …
A long-awaited extension of the Fall Creek Trail is set for construction later this year. This 1.4 mile segment will connect the current southern terminus at the Monon Trail to the orphaned spur of trail between Meridian St. and Central Ave. While comprehensive planning for the Fall Creek Trail route from the White River in …
The recent debate that has been raging here over the new bike lanes on Broad Ripple Avenue really touched off a fury of passionate debate among members of the urbanist community. On one side were folks (myself included) advocating for road diets to encourage slower traffic with the intended benefit being safer roads, sidewalks and …
I had a few minutes after class and snapped a few photos of the construction, now underway, on the last portion of the Cultural Trail downtown. The pavement has been torn up from Capitol Ave all the way to Senate and the parking looks like it will be gone once the trail is operating. …