by Thomas P. Healy With the first tranche of federal funds for the Red Line now available and a dedicated funding source for operational expenses, thanks to voter support for a local transit tax, IndyGo […more…]
Transportation for America’s Smart Cities Collaborative has selected Indianapolis to join 21 cities in learning how to best reconfigure public right-of-way for multiple transportation options. The City’s Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD) and Department of […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy The art of placemaking recognizes that any given location is much more than its GPS coordinates. According to Partnership for Public Spaces, a New York-based nonprofit organization, “A great public space […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Mass transit’s momentum continued in 2017 as IndyGo prepares for the largest, most comprehensive upgrade to its services since a public corporation was established in 1975 to provide transit services. According […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy After years of planning and more than a year of detailed engineering work, the 13.5-mile first phase of the Red Line Electric Bus Rapid Transit line is 100 percent designed and […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Efforts to implement the Marion County Transit Plan have received a big financial boost recently, and a couple of small ones too. The biggest boost came from Congress, which crafted bi-partisan […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Waiting for Congress to act is fraught with more uncertainty than wondering when the next bus will arrive. Transit advocates struggle to remain optimistic that Congress will fully fund federal capital […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Transit supporters packed the City-County Council chambers on Monday, January 30, to encourage council members to fully fund the Marion County Transit Plan. At issue was Proposal No. 3, 2017, [PDF] […more…]
By Thomas P. Healy Advocates of smart growth acknowledge the importance of transportation options to expand economic opportunity to more citizens as part of a broad-based strategy to create mixed-use, walkable places that serve citizens […more…]
Five City-County Council districts overlap Midtown and in each case a majority of voters favored increasing local investment in transit. So what’s next? According to Mark Fisher, who has been the Indy Chamber’s lead transit […more…]
