INDOT Rail Planning – Open House 6/2/11
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on May 27th, 2011 | 8 comments
As part of what appears to be an outreach effort on the part of INDOT, they are planning 3 statewide open houses to gather public input and comment on the development of a statewide rail plan. The outreach at it’s core is serving as their commitment to soliciting feedback from the public on what we think freight and passenger rail should look like in years to come across our state. In 2009, the current rail plan was adopted and had been commissioned 2 years prior. After reviewing input from statewide MPOs and invested stakeholders from private companies, to railroads to even property developers,...
Making sense of the latest Indyconnect documents, 8/2010
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on Aug 10th, 2010 | 3 comments
I was tooling around in my regular search for things related to light rail and Indianapolis yesterday and discovered that Indyconnect has created a “NE Corridor” specific portion of their wesite. Contained within, is a more detailed exploration of the process, and the documentation required, as it moves forward. Currently, as I have recently reported, there is an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) being conducted on the alignment from Union Station to Noblesville, in the Nickel Plate right of way (ROW). HNTB is the private contractor who is conducting the study.
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