Step 1 to Create a Pedestrian Friendly City
Posted by Kirsten Eamon-Shine in Neighborhoods on Jan 11th, 2011 | 20 comments
A lot Urban Indy’s content focuses on decisions made by “the man”. You know, the guy/gal/power structure that messes up a lot, doesn’t always get the value of making Indianapolis a live-able city, and can’t seem to listen to our urbanophilic reason? Well, there are also a lot of things, simple things, that you can do to make central Indiana a better place to live and move around in. If you want people to be able to get around the city with ease, I have one recommendation for you today:
Shovel Your Sidewalk!
If you are reading this and you do not have a sidewalk, I am sorry...
Open Thread: East Ohio Street
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods on Jan 10th, 2011 | 8 comments
The splitting of East Ohio Street is an interesting dilemma. This is one block north of the recently reconnected Market Street, which is featured in this post. Below is an aerial shot of this split.
The split is in place both to divert traffic on to the interstate and to avoid an at-grade railroad crossing. Here’s what the crossing looks like from street level on the east side:
The question I have is this: would it be worth the investment to reconnect Ohio Street under the...
January 2011 Wallpaper
Posted by Curt Ailes in Neighborhoods on Jan 10th, 2011 | 6 comments
Apologies for being so late with this. Free time can get slim being a new dad! This picture was shot from Monument Circle looking west, during the holiday season here in Indy. Click on the resolution that best matches your screen. 2560 x 1600, 1280 x 853, 1280 x 1024, 1366 x...
IndyGo should go back to school. I suggest IUPUI.
Posted by jason.larrison in Neighborhoods on Jan 7th, 2011 | 3 comments
It was right after the new year that Kevin Kastner sent an email that read:
IUPUI real time bus locator:
http://www.shepherdis.com/iupui/
I click on the link and find this:
I replied back suggesting the following simple Urban Indy post:
Why the f*** doesn’t IndyGo have this?
I’m not trying to be crude, but of all the things that have been discussed, to me a bus locator for web and mobile applications would be the best added value for the dollar.
Rail corridors, while important, can only cover so many people. Buses are still needed.
Additional bus lines, which are still greatly needed, are...
Indyconnect – An outside opinion
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on Jan 7th, 2011 | 8 comments
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This morning I woke up, and there was a wonderful link sitting in my email inbox. It was a link to the Overhead Wire, and an outside analysis by them of the Indyconnect plan. The Overhead Wire specifically took on the NE Corridor and compared it to the Capital Metrorail in Austin, TX. In their post, they compared how the Austin line skirts the downtown area. Since Austin’s commuter line opening earlier this year, it has been the target of repeated criticism about how poor a design it is and that it is a major display of political letdown. Sound familiar? If you live in Indianapolis,...
