The Original Push to Build the Highways Below-Grade: Guest Posted by Anonymous
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Historical Posts on May 24th, 2018 | 13 comments
As we have a week of numerous North Split public and committee meetings on our schedules, I can’t help but be frustrated by how quick stakeholders are to gloss over the historical implications of the original interstate development. There seems to be a general consensus that the interstate routing decisions were bad in retrospect – it tore up blocks of housing and the fabric of neighborhoods, resulting in an economic decline for numerous downtown neighborhoods. It pushed out families. It demolished historic buildings. It erased history. Yet discussions continue today about potentially...
Meet-Up: The North Split Public Open House
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Historical Posts on May 23rd, 2018 | 6 comments
Today, from 3-7 pm, INDOT will have their public open house for the North Split project. I am planning on attending, along with many other concerned local citizens. We are very worried about a wider, less attractive, and more intrusive elevated road right next to some of the most valuable real estate in the entire state. The meeting time and location are listed below:
When: Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Presentations will be given at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Where:Â Biltwell Event Center
950 S. White River Parkway S. Drive
Below are a few of the less intrusive renderings that are provided on...
Remnant Sidewalks: A Human Connection through an Auto-based Environment
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, Pedestrian on May 4th, 2018 | 1 comment
This is a start of what will hopefully be a new series of posts on some old remnant sidewalks in the city, which can pop up from time to time in places that one wouldn’t normally expect. This one in Babe-Denny near I-70 popped out at me when I was viewing the aerial of the neighborhood. This area is ravaged by awful car-based streets, that seem to pour vehicles as quickly and as often as possible onto and off of the looming Interstate. But, probably when this configuration was built, at least they found room for a sidewalk connecting one part of Ray Street with another:
I’ve looked at the...
