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 »
Polar Bear Pedal
Join the Mayor and hundreds if not thousands of other cyclists January 2nd for the first ever Polar Bear Pedal bike ride. This is a free event and has route direction and security through IMPD. Cycling doesn’t stop just because it is almost cold outside…….. Register the day of or at the following website: http://www.indy.gov/egov/mayor/pages/polarbearpedal.aspx … Read entire article »
Regional Bikeways Plan Update
The Indy MPO has been working to create and update the regional bikeways plan for the Indianapolis area as part of the long range transportation plan through 2035. The proposal includes bike lanes, bike paths, greenways and other good times. It has been a large effort by limited staff to combine bike and pedestrian plans from surrounding jurisdictions as well as combining Indy’s various related plans through sustainindy, DPW and Indy parks. The current proposal … 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 »
Filed under: Bicycling, Featured, Pedestrian, Transit
College Ave In-Street Rail: Exploring the Feasibility…
A lot of the recent controversy here at Urban Indy has revolved around the unannounced road diet that Indy seems to have went on this year. During this construction season alone, a lane has been wiped clean and converted to biking facilities along 46th street, 62nd/Broad Ripple Ave, Shelby St & Madison Ave, Washington Street downtown, Capitol Ave and Virginia Ave; and those are just the ones that I can think of off the top of … Read entire article »
Guest Post – Broad Ripple Bike Lane Background, by Thomas Healy
The Broad Ripple bike lanes are the most contentious project that Urban Indy has ever covered. The article posted by Curt Ailes turned out to be the most commented on the site, but it was getting so heated that I decided to shut down the discussion for the time. We have reached out to one of the major players in the process, Tom Healy, member of the Broad Ripple Village Association Board, in the hopes of adding some additional background information about how the bike lanes came in to existence. I hope this article can shed a bit of light on the situation (the original article with images can be viewed here via pdf). ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Aspirations for bike lanes on Broad Ripple Avenue date back to the mid-1980s when the Mayor’s Bicycle … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bicycling, Featured, Neighborhoods, Pedestrian
Public Art on the grounds of “Lawrence Village at the Fort”
I was contacted earlier this summer by a friend of mine and approached about crafting some coverage for Lawrence Village at the Fort. For those of you who are not in the know, the old Fort Benjamin Harrison has been undergoing a reuse of sorts guided by the Ft. Benjamin Harrison Reuse Authority. What has resulted, is a nice street grid of platted open land as well as reuse of existing building stock. A master plan … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bicycling, Featured, Neighborhoods
Meridian Kessler Moving Forward with Form-Based Codes
My neighborhood, Meridian Kessler, has been doing some behind-the-scenes maneuvering to promote the implementation of Form-Based zoning codes in the neighborhood. Form-based codes are the logical antidote to the current use-based zoning that is in place in much of the United States. Urban Indy will be highly supportive of the Meridian Kessler Neighborhood Association’s push for this important and much-needed change. The first public meeting will be held at Developer Town at 53rd Street and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bicycling, Featured, Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian, Transit
Measured Progress: Bike Lanes on Broad Ripple Ave
Last week, guide lines went down on Broad Ripple Ave between the village and Keystone Avenue. I knew that the thermostriped permanent ones would not be far behind. Well, the new lines are down and my initial expectations for what the corridor would look like have been exceeded. The new design has caused a small stir in the twittersphere as I noticed some people wondering what the city was thinking of when they designed this. I … Read entire article »
46th Street Rebuild Indy Critique
The Indianapolis DPW contracted this job out during 2011. I am not 100% sure of the overall scope involved since I have seen reconstruction of 46th from College Ave all the way to Emerson and even beyond that. For the purposes of this post, I am going to focus on the section that is bounded by College Ave on the west and Keystone Ave on the east; the portion that I have personally witnessed a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bicycling, Pedestrian
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