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Give tickets for J-walking across 6 lanes of traffic. See one sentence cured what your multi page doc won’t do any good.
I just came here to say the exact same thing. Almost hit two people the other day who started out in front of me on Washington Street who were not in a crosswalk.
Washington Street really shouldn’t be 6 lanes in the City, especially downtown.
Good luck with that goal. You may have noticed that some group(s) of officials approved loading/unloading stations for IndyGo that are located in the middle of some of the busiest streets in Indianapolis. Instead of drivers being able to enjoy more (taxpayer funded) lanes that were added in the last 5 years, IndyGo has been given the middle lane and one traffic lane going each direction, which takes vehicular traffic back down to too few lanes.
Pedestrians now have to cross traffic lanes to get to and from the island where the busses are. Not sure who came up with the idea, but it is ridiculous.
It’s a big city urban street idea where traffic is already creeping slowly. They idealisticly forced it on our thoroughfares that move traffic faster. Recipe for disaster.
Tatman, the issue is far from j-walkers. A large issue is the lack of sidewalks even within 465 and drivers with no concern for anyone else on the road. Since the drivers are primarily an issue of just total lack of decency, the best course of action is to create better options for pedestrians, cyclists, & transit users. That in turn hopefully makes the roadways safer for other drivers as well.
JM, Almost every bus rider is going to involve crossing lanes of traffic go to/from the bus when they get off at an old-school corner stop. Either to get to where there going, or afterwards to catch the bus back where they came from. Having driven up College Ave & Shelby St plenty of times before & after the red-line came through, it is just fine and generally safer now that people aren’t racing and weaving through traffic as much now that it is largely one lane in each direction. Yeah, taxpayers fund public infrastructure. That includes both road ways & public transit.
I can’t think of a single BRT route where car travel lanes were added in the 5 years before BRT was installed.
The Red and Blue line routes (Meridian/College and Washington) have been pretty much the same roads in the 40+ years I’ve been in Indy. 38th and Post were widened east of 465 in those years, but not the last 5.
Whole lotta folks in the comments hopelessly addicted to their gigantic trucks and SUVs who have lost the ability to feel empathy towards those who can’t afford those same death machines and are just doing their best to get by using the infrastructure available to them. I hope each of you have a protected bike lane installed in front of your home, but I don’t think any of you even actually live in Indianapolis anyway
LOL. Hyperbole much? Nate- you need to hire Michael immediately. He represents you perfectly
Until IMPD starts enforcing the traffic laws, this plan will be like every other plan. Being revisited in 5 years because it didn’t work as expected. We could solve a whole lot of safety issues in this city, if IMPD actually enforced speed limits, stop signs, and traffic signals.
I love how a full third of fatal crashes involve drunk drivers, but some of you think ticketing folks walking is the answer…
Unfortunately city officials do not tell us how many bikers blow through red lights and IMPD refuses to cite these people. And, IMPD refuses to tell us how many accidents with J-walkers and bikers that refuse to obey traffic laws are the cause of many of these accidents.
Someone has a math problem or there has been dramatic progress. From ’19 to ’23 a fatality of serious injury every 5 hours. ’25 year to date has 79 fatalities and 138 serious injuries, a total of 217 occuring in 319 days, or one roughly every day and a half….