Connecting People to Parks: Grassy Creek Trail
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, Pedestrian on Oct 22nd, 2017 | 2 comments
One of the larger issues that suburban Indianapolis faces is lack of connectivity, especially for anyone not in a vehicle. One of the more interesting new efforts to change this is the recent addition of Grassy Creek Trail. It doesn’t look like much from the large scale view:
A zoom in to the northern trail head shows something rather unique, at least for a suburban trail: there is only a one-car parking lot:
There are likely close to 500 people living in the subdivision and apartment complex to the north here. And the one thing that this style of development has in spades is a lot of on-street...
Bus Rapid Transit Could be a Game Changer for Indy Neighborhoods
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, Pedestrian, Transit on Oct 10th, 2017 | 31 comments
Indianapolis has largely succeeded in transforming its downtown from a sleepy no-man’s land to a place where people want to be. It’s not perfect, but it’s a downtown that can stand up among its peers. Throughout all of this focus on downtown, Indy’s neighborhoods have largely maintained a similar trajectory with regards to their built form for the past century. Broad Ripple and Fountain Square have probably seen the most new development, but almost every new structure has had to include a nod to off street auto parking. This raises the cost for development, increasing the...
