William Hazen

A building with rough hewn stone on the first floor, smooth cut stone on the second floor, yellow wood on the third floor, and corrugated metal siding on the fourth floor, and then a completely different arrangement on the other side of the building

holy mother of breaking up the massing

oh my god lol

A streetcar rail and street paving bricks are visible alongside a bus lane on asphalt street in two potholes

some good streetcar rail action in the potholes today

who would win, a multi trillion dollar transportation system with complex drainage equipment OR a teensy bit of water???

i swear to god it wasn’t even raining hard yesterday and people just completely lost their minds. Appears today will be no different

we should tear down urban freeways more often

man the Lloyd should be a freeway without a future. Severs Downtown Evansville from its historic neighborhoods to the north.

@michaelpdivita.bsky.social you’d probably know best if they’re thinking about anything like that

Now that South Bend Transpo has consolidated most of their downtown routes on to Main Street, I think it would be worthwhile to implement a Super Stops/Loop Link type project to speed up bus service on that corridor.

Aerial

The trail and trailhead parking lot will occupy much of the former right of way of Erie, as seen here

My guess is that if the city needs to acquire easements they will be in touch shortly (if they haven’t been already). Otherwise I imagine the former right of way of Erie will remain city-owned and maintained as part of the bridge and I would not expect property lines to move.

Road Closure Map

The project also closes Erie Avenue permanently between Keystone and 47th, which has functioned as a dangerous high speed slip lane for rat-running drivers. h/t @andersonyork.bsky.social for the photos and information!

Plan for trailheads

Bridge Plan

Plans were shared last night for the new Nickel Plate Trail Bridge over Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis! The bridge will be a huge safety improvement for all trail users, and construction is slated to begin in 2027, although work on the North trailhead is already underway.

View of a Wetland at Grassy Creek Regional Park

One of Indy’s largest parks is about to get even larger. On March 12, Indy Parks plans to officially add roughly 88.5 acres to Grassy Creek Regional Park, protecting vital wetland habitat from future encroachment by suburban sprawl.

lol what

In other words, not great. Link: learn.streetlightdata.com/hubfs/eBooks...

Street safety over the 100 largest US Metros. Indianapolis is 72. New York is 1, Boston 2, Bakersfield is last, at 100

A new report is out that ranks Indianapolis #72 out of the 100 largest US Metros for street safety.

A 23’ wide lane on Dr AJ Brown Ave

A 20’ wide lane on Sherman Dr

Ah well close enough

Reminds me of Dr AJ Brown and Sherman Drive sans mountains and palm trees

they literally asked, “why would a car do that?” lol

To whom it may concern, there is a house for sale at 22nd and Harding with good transit access and close to the Riverside Promenade bike path currently for sale for just $90k

IndyGo system map

Compare this to IndyGo, which has a clean map key, routes color coded by frequency, and major landmarks identified on the map

We gotta do something about transit legibility in this state man. This system map is completely unapproachable for new riders.

That’s my president

no cable cars tho

A rail peeks through pavement at a former streetcar wye at East Washington and Gray, Indianapolis

Indianapolis still has a few streetcar wyes hanging around too

A green and cream trolleybus on a bus loop somewhere in Indianapolis (possibly the East Street Loop judging by the factory in the background)

A bus pulls in to an unknown bus loop in Indianapolis Railways Red and Cream

Two more in color before I hit the road again

A trolleybus on a bus loop along the Central Avenue Route

A trolleybus on the Butler Bus Loop

A bus on an unknown bus loop (possibly Riverside Park)

These were primarily built for trolley buses, but many continued to be used by diesel buses for decades after trolley buses ended their service to the city.

You can see remnants of other loops if you know where to look. Many became driveways, parking lots, or were planted over to be returned to the parks they were in, like the former loops at Ellenberger and Riverside Park.

Douglass Park Loop

There’s also one more honorable mention. It’s now bollarded off within Frederick Douglass Park, just north of 25th and Dr AJ Brown.