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Great plan!!
Nice ideas. I predict they will achieve as much traction as they did last go-round. But hey, errybody got to have a dream.
Yeah, INDOT is staffed with traffic engineers. If the only tool you’ve been taught to use is a hammer, everything better be a nail.
The Governor needs to tell INDOT that economic development is a priority, but since this might benefit Indianapolis, then it has no hope in the State House. The ironic thing here is that out of the other side of his mouth, the govenor is telling cites they need to raise more tax revenue.
maybe IEDC could get involved with a slick economic development plan like LEAP for this area, and make it a shoo-in for Republican support…
At least the state has traffic engineers who get listened to. The city of Indianapolis has dismissed all traffic-flow concerns and has given over the streets to decorators whose prime directive is straight out of Portland: F with cars. Genius!
INDOT is planning a $900 million reconstruction of I-65 on the north and northwest sides of downtown. That’s the big one to watch right now.
put it all underground!
Preach!
Rethink is ReWoke. They got their $2M design fees for this, so they’ve done their job. I would also speculate that the $500M estimate for this is actually closer to $Billion.
$5 Billion
There are A LOT of cities that would disagree. The plan cited several other cities that have managed similar projects and generated millions of dollars in additional tax revenue. If woke means more tax revenue without raising taxes, call me woke.
INDOT could never. Marion County doesn’t even get paved streets, not a shot they do something that makes sense, is nice, and pays for itself.
I thought we already lived through a south split redesign? This sounds like east siders wanting property value increases at a cost of $500M -$1B that we all pay for?
A better use of time & talent would be to re-zone along I-70 between the city and the airport to reduce the landfills, truck storage and general Detroit style industrial crap – so the city shows better to visitors. Remove the orange cones and construction from Monument Circle, open some roads downtown. Seemingly easy stuff that would actually have an impact on property values.
The North Split was redesigned and reconstructed, but that process will have to be repeated for the entire “inner loop” around Downtown over the next 15-20 years. The infrastructure has reached the end of its useful lifecycle and needs to be replaced.
While what I’m suggesting might seem ‘laughable’ to many, I think it makes sense on a number of levels. Instead of making tax write off donations to a variety of indidual organizations each year, the largest, wealthiest, employer in the city and smack dab in the middle of these proposed changes, Lilly, might consider redirecting their charitable tax write offs for a couple of years to the city’s infrastructure…..existing road improvements and possibly this project. This would help everyone, not just a particular group or organization to say nothing of enhancing their campus and positive big time PR. 😁
Among the most dependable ways to make money in/near government these days is to get paid to perform a study for a project that will never be built.
Those of us who have been watching the city and its expensive consultants dance and sing for decades about the levee they’re never going to build around Rocky Ripple are very familiar with this process.
Until the “investigatory” tranche of funds runs out, rest assured they’ll keep ‘vestigatin’ and cashing those checks!
Can’t wait for the” big crash/explosion/ chemical spill” in a underground tunnel that big rig semis are allowed to traverse.
But it will look great above ground.
This is already something that has been technically resolved all over the world.
Well I hope you are among the first responders that will have to deal with the incident when it happens …and it will
Looks nice but would create limited room for expansion, which will likely be needed, in a heavy traffic bottleneck area of that highway. It already is one of the worst merge – splits in the city confusing even moderate traffic
There is probably never going to be another widening of the interstates in Downtown ever again. It would require way too much property acquisition and demolition.
Also, adding lanes does not work to relieve congestion. We’ve known this for a long time.
I’m with those advocating putting the downtown legs of the interstate underground. The benefits would, IMO, outstrip the huge cost of doing so (Google it). Would it require some vision and some rethinking by DOT of its priorities? Yes. And that would be a good thing.
Check out Margaret T. Hance Park in Phoenix. Built right over I-10 with 250,000 vehicles speeding along underneath the park every day – that’s twice the volume on I-70 in Indy. Hance Park is an amazing refuge in the city, with parks, trails and playgrounds. It’s a site for festivals and concerts, and tons of people are there every day of the year.
This would be such a win for the city. “If we want Indianapolis to be competitive with other cities that are making these changes, we’re going to have to do something similar”, it is time to start thinking ahead for what the city will need in the next 25-30 years. Greenspace and walkable areas (third places) are what younger generations value and are asking for.