New Series: Guest Posts in Support of Indy Connect’s Mass Transit Referendum
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Transit on May 7th, 2016 | 28 comments
Urban Indy is partnering with the new Transit Drives Indy website to promote the Indy Connect ballot referendum, which will appear before the full City Council on Monday, May 9th at 7 pm in the City County Building. We intend to run a series of blog posts from citizens in support of the plan. Our first guest post is from Kallan Carr:
As a Midtown resident, I love everything about my neighborhood. My husband and I bought our home at 46th and Carrollton because we wanted to enjoy all aspects of city life in Indianapolis. We love to walk to restaurants, the store, bike to Broad Ripple and enjoy all the...
Letters of Support for the Red Line
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian, Transit on Oct 7th, 2015 | 173 comments
Due in part to some of the recent pushback on the Red Line proposal, I have been asked by a fan of Urban Indy to write a letter to the President of the Meridian Kessler Neighborhood Association, Nick Colby. He can be reached at: ncolby at colbyequipment dot com. Here is the letter that I have prepared:
If you are a resident of Meridian Kessler and a fan of Urban Indy, I encourage you to write your own letter of support for the proposed Red Line.
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IndyGo’s Route Changes: Part II
Posted by Kevin Kastner in New Development, Pedestrian, Transit on Nov 3rd, 2014 | 3 comments
This is a follow up to Thursday’s post on IndyGo’s proposed route changes. I believe these images contain all of the rest of the changes, although I could be missing something. Apologies for the poor photos, the lighting in The Hall is challenging.
Here’s a brief summary of some of the major changes shown above:
St. Vincent will go past Butler’s Campus.
Shelby will travel down Virginia.
Route 5 is split in half and the western portion becomes route 6.
Route 8 stays on Washington Street downtown instead of heading north to Ohio.
The Red Line circulator has been...
IndyGo’s Route Changes: Downtown and North Side Preview
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian, Transit on Oct 30th, 2014 | 4 comments
This morning, I was able to visit The Hall to view the Indygo route changes, which are set to come next year with the opening of the new Transit Center. I took some photos of the posterboards that are on display, but they are better seen in person. According to IndyGo on twitter, these changes will be online next Monday.
First, a look at how the transit center will work. Most of this is actually self-explanatory:
The downtown bus loop will be eliminated, affording more direct routes, and potentially shaving
a few minutes off of the time the buses spend in the downtown area:
Proposed midday frequency...
Bus Rapid Transit: The Red Line
Posted by Kevin Kastner in New Development, Pedestrian, Transit on Sep 17th, 2014 | 12 comments
Yesterday, Indy Connect made a big splash on local media with the public announcement of a $2 million dollar grant for engineering along the proposed Red Line from Carmel to Greenwood. This post intends to give a quick rundown of the information that we know, as well as provide the public a peek into how the buses will be run. First, the links from local media:
Indianapolis Business Journal
IndyStar
WTHR
WISH
WRTV
Next, a link to the pdf document released from the city. Some highlights below:
That last image is interesting, because it displays a new technology that has been demonstrated in...
