Did Transit even have a chance?
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 a lot of sense now when I look back at the last month of legislation and how it was handled. By that, … Read entire article »
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Cultural Trail: A $60 million parking lot?
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 … Read entire article »
Is God’s Will really more parking?
A tragedy of epic civic proportions is occurring at the corner of 22nd and College Ave on the near north side of Indianapolis. The old portion of the Grace Apostolic Church was recently mowed down thanks to a tall crane with a wrecking ball attached to it. I made some brief inquiries into what the purpose of the demolition was. I checked in with Chelsea Humble of King Park CDC and she that it was being … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Neighborhoods, New Development
Friday Fun – Downtown Indy Parking Lot Map
We have been trying to do a series of posts labeled Friday Fun. This week’s entry is perhaps not so fun when you examine the implications, but I took a few minutes and did a 20,000 foot parking snapshot; and Im positive I’ve missed some spaces, but here is a rough look in a roughly downtown-ish part of Indianapolis. Some of the lots are under redevelopment with City Way (SE quadrant) and the recently announced Block … Read entire article »
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HB1073 falls in committee but still not dead
HB1073 (Public Mass Transit) was dealt a heavy blow today when it went down 10-11 in the House Ways & Means committee this morning. Partisan bickering erupted early on with Representative Crawford singling out the labor language in the bill. Jeff Espich, committee Chairman, pointed out that he had stripped half of the labor related language out but it appeared the Democrats on the committee were not going to budge and continued to vote no. To … Read entire article »
We could Solve this thing over Dinner
I don’t think that it is a secret to any Urban Indy writer or reader that I have invested A LOT of personal (and family) time over the last 3 years taking photos, writing, travelling to various cities with better transit systems including Portland, DC, Charlotte and Chicago and dragging my family along the way for “another one of dad’s transit trips!”. Full disclosure, my family has also had the privilege of hosting regional transit officials of the highest order over delicious meals prepared by my wife which include but are not limited to lasagna, pasta and with plenty of red wine, and local beer. I would like to think that the Urban Indy group has had a pretty good say in what has become Indy Connect. While we are not 100% … Read entire article »
HB1073 call to action!
This was sent to us from the leaders of the transition coalition: Thank for you for signing the petition to support transit funding in Indiana. The House Ways and Means Committee is considering HB 1073 which would: 1. A method for the public to express their support for transit funding through a referendum; 2. Local Home Rule, the role of local government to make decisions in the best interests of the people it serves; 3. A method to partially fund mass transit through the flexibility to increase a local option income tax to become a dedicated funding source. We contacted you in November to let you know there will be calls to act and contact Indiana legislators. This is our first call to action! We need your help NOW! There are two preferred ways … Read entire article »
HB1073 – transit – Gets its day at the Indiana Statehouse
HB1073 (click to see official bill) is the initial volley by the Central Indiana Transit Task Force to state lawmakers. The summary of the bill is as follows: Public mass transportation. Specifies that a county or city council (other than the city-county council of Marion County) may elect by ordinance to provide revenue to a public transportation corporation from the city’s or the county’s distributive share of county adjusted gross income taxes, county option income taxes, or county economic … Read entire article »
Highlighting Indy’s “Bus Plan”
A great bus plan was released to the citizens of Indianapolis on December 13th 2011. This plan proposes double the service over existing IndyGo bus service, identifies rapid transit corridors in the form of BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) and also spells out a future for a dependable bus service for the city of Indianapolis as well as Carmel. However, if you were only a casual Indianapolis area resident, you may not know this. Since the release of the final … Read entire article »
Indianapolis Regional Transit Plan heads to the Statehouse
Today, the final Indyconnect plan was released for public review. The plan released today, is the plan that officials will be taking with them when they go to the statehouse in the 2012 short session. Included in this plan are pieces of the former two releases but with some notable changes. Chief among those changes, are the finalized proposal to include only Marion and Hamilton Counties in the initial phase. The NE Corridor, already under study, … Read entire article »
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