Guest Post: Indy’s Most Needed Pedestrian Walkways by Dr. Jill Saligoe-Simmel
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian on Nov 17th, 2015 | 19 comments
Walkable cities contribute to people’s overall health, safety, and quality of life. This study prioritizes missing pedestrian walkways to help identify where investment should be focused in Indianapolis.
Although it has some very walkable areas of town, overall Indy ranks low in nationwide surveys of walkability (Walkscore.com). Recent efforts are underway in Indianapolis to enhance walkability, as demonstrated by its recently adopted Complete Streets Ordinance and the Health By Design et.al. Indy WalkWays initiative. A large land area and limited budget require the City find...
IndyGo’s Detailed Plans for the Red Line
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Bicycling, New Development, Pedestrian, Transit on Nov 5th, 2015 | 92 comments
Last evening, IndyGo released a Google Map enabled view of their detailed plans for the proposed Red Line Bus Rapid Transit route. There are a lot of interesting features included, which will be featured in this post from North to South:
North turnaround at 66th and College:
Any bus transit line will usually have an issue with how it turns around at its final destination. I say usually here, because people can be creative. This part of College Avenue actually has an old right-of-way that parallels the newer street configuration, so it can be used for this function:
Station Alignments:
I’m not...
The Case in Greenwood: Why America Deserves Its Retail Blight.
Posted by Eric McAfee in New Development on Nov 1st, 2015 | 34 comments
The local media thoroughly covered the City of Greenwood’s announcement that it had finally secured a developer for the site at the southeast corner of the I-65/County Line Road interchange—a tract where numerous proposals had come to light, most prominently featuring a Cabela’s. But, time and time again, none had materialized…part of the aftermath of the sour economy. Well, as of October 28, Gershman Partners announced its plans to develop the tract into over 700,000 square feet of retail.
The announcement did not include any primary anchor tenants, suggesting that at this...
