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Recommendation No. 1: Stripe all crosswalks in Indianapolis with standard white rectangles, which indicate, the world over: “Crosswalk here.”
End the practice, epitomized by the Cultural Trail, of replacing standard crosswalk markings with curlicue designs + marketing messages.
Recommendation 2: Turn those newly striped crosswalks into speed tables.
We aren’t going to paint our way out of this crisis.
Yes, and it would be great if the speed tables were put in right beside people’s houses, causing every triax with a loose gate to shake nearby residences to their foundations and ruin quality of life for the occupants. Good thinking.
Reduce the roads to one lane each direction, put bike paths in and make the city more undrivable like they have done in the rest of the city!
Well said, Steve R. Don’t forget cutting off a main North/South artery, but dropping an astroturf park in a quarter of Monument Circle….
That sounds great let’s do it immediately.
Apparently the city is not serious about increased road funding from the state formula since the local priority is new wave road design.
Post Road was just totally reconstructed over the last two years, which was the second time it was rebuilt in the last 25 years. How about we fix and upgrade the existing bad pavements before we keep trying to make national lists of cool street design.
I don’t think you understand how things work. Federal government offered free design money. We took it. We can’t just take the money and use it for whatever we want.
The feds offer free building money if we use it as part of implementing dedicated bus lanes. Our legislators have made it quite clear they don’t want to see any more of that.
The issue is the Marion County Republican legislators who fail us at the Statehouse. They let the rest of the state take our road funding so the folks who live in the parts of Indiana where the population is diminishing can have nice, sparely travelled state highways and INDOT can lose their minds implementing things that traffic engineers might love but citizens don’t care about.
We need both more road funding as a state and the percentage that goes to cities and towns needs to increase.
Yeah and the Post road reconstruction was just a re-do of exactly what was there because any redesign was going to be more expensive. When the city is starving for road dollars, you have to go with what is cheapest.
I see we are still not going to get sidewalks in Decatur Township or any safe places for people to walk along Kentucky Avenue, Lynhurst, High School Road, and Mann Road.
You need to be in the middle of a heavily democrat district to get your share Richard.
Making one way roads into “neighborhood friendly” streets was/is bad idea, they are more dangerous now escpecially to cyclist.
From a cyclist who lives along one of these streets, no they don’t.
Every single piece of data says the exact opposite Richard.
But don’t let facts get in the way of dumb opinions!
Prove your statement
I was in NYC a few weeks ago for the first time in several years. The changes were amazing. A lot of east west streets had gone from two lanes to one lane with a bicycle lane and in a lot of cases, space for outdoor dining. Broadway was closed to cars and trucks and there was only bike lanes. Guess what?!? The city was still just as bustling as ever. The changes seemed to be great. Taxi drivers I talked to, didn’t think it made that much difference and in one case mentioned that the new extra “outdoor dining lane” gave delivery vehicles designated spots to pull into to.
We don’t really how good we had it when Mass Ave was closed to traffic. Sigh
Sweden is home to the vision zero idea. It is where it has had the most success. When I was driving in Sweden maybe a dozen years ago, the thing that I had the hardest time getting used to was that at signaled intersections, there was NO SIGNAL ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE INTERSECTION. That meant that you had to stop well back from the intersection to even see your own traffic signal, like 15 or 20 feet farther back than I am used to in the US. I suspect (but never found out) that pulling up to the corner, where you could no longer see the signal was considered running the light and might have resulted in a ticket.
We need a grand to reduce our murder rate.