IndyGo ridership spikes during Super Bowl
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on Feb 6th, 2012 | 11 comments
IndyGo and Super Bowl organizers were thinking ahead when they were planning transportation and parking for the Super Bowl week in Indianapolis. Park & Ride lots were located, shuttle services were organized, and IndyGo submitted for and received a CMAQ grant to provide free fixedroute boardings from February 2nd through February 5th. As a result of high demand for parking downtown, ridership on IndyGo fixed route service has spiked tremendously. The first week following the AFC & NFC championships, IndyGo observed a spike. Friday January 28th, Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th ridership...
Did Transit even have a chance?
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on Feb 3rd, 2012 | 15 comments
Dear Indiana lawmakers,
I hope that you are enjoying a brief respite from the short session and taking in what our fine capital city has to offer. The Super Bowl is here this week and our city is displaying the fruits of 40 years of effort to revitalize the city’s core, and indeed primary economic engine of our entire state. Thousands of people from the region and in fact the entire country, have descended on our city to work, play and spend money. It represents a coming of age for a town that was pretty sleepy when most of you were growing through your impressionable years.
I suppose that makes...
Indy’s Superbowl Village
Posted by Graeme Sharpe in Neighborhoods on Feb 1st, 2012 | 12 comments
If anyone in the area has not been to the Superbowl Village (i.e. Georgia Street) you are missing out on a truly unique experience. This will be a watershed event, both for Indianapolis festival planning, as well as for the future of sporting events in the US. We have set the bar pretty high on this one.
Here are some photos I wanted to share with everyone. It’s only been up for a few days, so I can’t wait to see how it develops as we approach the weekend of the big game. See you all...
Immediate Threat to Bike/Ped Funding
Posted by Joe Smoker in Bicycling, Pedestrian, Transit on Feb 1st, 2012 | 2 comments
We are in a crisis as far as transportation infrastructure goes. The nation and individual states have heavily over-invested in single user roadways and highways that they can no longer afford. The continued push by some lawmakers has been to try and remove dedicated cycling and pedestrian funding from the transportation bill.
Members of the House are currently drafting a bill to eliminate programs such as Safe Routes to School and Bike/Ped positions in state DOTs. This is an urgent request to email your representative and let them know, Bike/Ped infrastructure isn’t a desire, it is a basic need...
Cultural Trail: A $60 million parking lot?
Posted by Curt Ailes in Bicycling on Feb 1st, 2012 | 10 comments
Last night, I rode my bicycle to IUPUI. It has been unseasonably warm here in Indy for the week of the Super Bowl and I decided that it was time to take advantage of one of my favorite modes of transportation, the bike. I always attempt to take advantage of all the wonderful pieces of cycling infrastructure that our city is providing these days and yesterday was no difference. As often as I take pride in these structures though, it comes with an equal amount of disdain for people who have an utter disrespect for the same valuable pieces of infrastructure.
Case in point, the above picture. This was the...
