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INDOT Studying Future of Amtrak, Hoosier State
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on May 22nd, 2013 | 3 comments
On Thursday, May 23rd, local stakeholders will take part in a meeting that will help to shape the future of the Amtrak Hoosier State line. The Hoosier State, which runs from Indianapolis to Chicago 3 times weekly, is facing elimination due to the impending loss of federal funding. This funding currently accounts for a portion of those required to operate the service. All current Amtrak routes with operations of less than 750 miles will no longer be funded with federal dollars as of October 2013 as a result of the Federal Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008. This act requires Amtrak to...
Refined Green Line Downtown Alternatives
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on May 7th, 2013 | 0 comments
The Citizen’s Advisory Committee for the Green Line met recently and presented the latest findings for downtown alignments. I wrote about these 4 alignments in February when details were in the preliminary state of analysis.
With some firm rails to run on, in depth study on each alignment has proceeded. The study has paused for input from a number of stakeholders upon which further revisions may occur and some alignments may be eliminated. Lets jump in and see what they found!
LRT/BRT Options
To lay the ground work for this analysis, first understand that there are 4 alignment options which...
Empty check-in at IND.
Posted by Eric McAfee in Transit on May 1st, 2013 | 9 comments
I was torn between posting my latest here or on my personal site, American Dirt. While most Indy-themed articles end up finding their way here, this one scrutinized airports in a way that I usually only apply to my personal site. So I’ll paraphrase it here, but the full post is there on Dirt.
It’s not necessarily fair to judge Indianapolis International Airport’s Colonel H. Weir Cook Terminal on its level of activity at 9pm on a Friday. But at a time in the evening when larger airports are still humming, about 80% of the retail options are closed at IND. Perhaps more important...
HB1011 relegated to Study Committee
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on Apr 29th, 2013 | 17 comments
Urban Indy has kept up to the minute with the goings-on of HB1011, mass transit, which was introduced in the Indiana House this year. Friday April 26th, it was reported that Representative Jerry Torr, author of the bill, had signed off on the Senate adopted version of the bill; that being all referendum authorizing language the original bill covered was stripped and replaced with a bi-partisan study committee being established to look into the issue over the summer.
As written, the study committee has a December 2013 deadline to report back to the state legislature its findings. Presumably, after this...
IndyGo’s Frequency Maps
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Transit on Apr 26th, 2013 | 0 comments
As one of the premiere transit blogs, Human Transit has been beating the drum of frequency maps for transit. These maps prioritize how often buses run, where traditional transit maps show each line to be on equal footing. I had even thought of creating a crude version for IndyGo that features their new lines that have improved bus frequency (which are still not as frequent as they should be, but that’s another story). However, IndyGo actually has these maps on their website for everyone to view. The PDF file explaining this can be found at this link. The maps can be seen there, or...
