How Indy Could Invest In Itself
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian, Transit on Oct 26th, 2015 | 24 comments
This the follow-up post from the one I wrote on October 22nd.
Indianapolis doesn’t have a lot of money to throw around at our various issues, and that money may be dwindling as I type. My number one money saving idea is simple: No more widened roads in the name of “improvement“. The phrase “If you’re in a hole, the first step is to stop digging” comes to mind here. But, consider that a widened city road:
Costs more to maintain than it did previously. One mile of 2 lane road costs $312,000 just to be resurfaced.
Places land into the public Right-of-Way which can no...
Indy’s Streetcar Network: 91 Years Later
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Pedestrian, Transit on Dec 16th, 2014 | 6 comments
This morning I was cleaning up some files on my work computer, and I came across a map that I found of the old streetcar network from 1923. I linked this image back in 2008, but it’s worth revisiting again:
At my workplace, I was able to work on this file a little bit, and I created a shapefile of the network as faithfully as I could:
Basically, if I was unsure about the actual routes, I’d follow the roads in places where I could find historic mixed-use buildings in the city. The businesses located in these buildings often relied on their locations next to the streetcars, so I...
