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They need to start with maintaining the Monon and widening it as promised three years ago.
Did you not read the part about the Indiana State Supreme Court ruling in 2012 that determined land beneath the rail trails are private, and that is what has stalled the widening of the Monon Trail?
Yes, of course I read it.
How about someone comments on some details of what that means? and why it’s caused such a LONG delay? and why it’s impossible to get an update from Indy Parks on the status of their promised widening? and why no maintenance is being done on the current trail?
Another thought on the Monon — I don’t know the full chronology of the Monon construction, but why is it that the Monon Trail is so much wider to the north of Nora? I know, I know — Carmel, Carmel, Carmel. Still, seems since the portion north is also on the Monon railway it would be under the same rules.
Plus, the lack of maintenance on the portion of the Monon Trail south of 96th street is dangerous. The trail sides are breaking off and someone is going to get injured by hitting the broken edges, or the many potholes and big bumps made by the tree roots breaking up through the trail asphalt.
Do we have to wait until someone is seriously injured to get something done on that portion of the Monon? And Yes, they did promise this 3 years ago. This is especially frustrating when you see some of the construction across town on curbs and such that don’t seem to be in dire need of complete replacement.
I’ll inject some positivity here. All of this sounds great. I’m grateful for the trails we do have (not wide enough or too wide) and happy to hear a car dependent city like Indianapolis is further investing this alternative means of transportation. I haven’t had a car for 8 years, live in Fountain Square & use a cargo bike for my downtown businesses.
I notice Decatur township is not included in this. They would like things such as sidewalks. We have many elderly and poor who have to walk on busy roads such as Kentucky Avenue, Mann Road, Mooresville Road just to get to the drug store and grocery store. I have seen mothers pushing their children in strollers through the snow where there is no sidewalk or even a decent shoulder on the road. I have seen people in wheel chairs on Kentucky Ave, and Mann Road because no sidewalks. People walk on the railroad tracks because it safer than walking along Kentucky Ave which is a highway. I see people standing in a ditch with water to their ankles because the bus stop at Kentucky Ave and Lynhurst has no other place for them to stand and no enclosure. I contacted the city years ago to see about contributing to fix the bus stop and no response. Republican and Democrats administrations alike have ignored this area of town. I guess I should complain our sidewalks are not wide enough but of course we do not have many and if we do they are only a few hundred feet installed by one of our warehouses the city has given us. I was told years ago the city was going to install an all purpose path from Mooresville Road to Rockville Road on Lynhurst which has not happened. Almost all residential property has been converted to warehouse. The real attitude was revealed years ago when I was attending a local zoning organization when Hudnut’s driver said why don’t you guys get annexed by Morgan County where you belong?
The MONON Trail (phase 1) was built in the Goldsmith administration and has been barely maintained since. (20+ years).
The only bright spot has been the new bridge over 38th St. Maintenance of infrastructure and landscaping is the key the success of these venues… if Indy Parks can’t figure this out, it should be outsourced.
That’s your solution? Private indistry profiting off of taxpayer resources? That’s exactly what got us into this mess. If Indiana would quit giving gigantic tax breaks to every company who offers to bring a measley amount of low-paying jobs here, maybe we would have tax dollars to pay for things.
The Monon is great and literally nobody cares about widening it. That’s a waste of money. Since when was the Monon in bad condition? Twelve feet of busted as fault around 96th St, you’re joking right?… They just spend like $10M on the bridge at 38th St. Quit worrying so much about existing trails and focus on neighborhoods without bike lanes! Connect the rest of Indianapolis – an avid cyclist
Anything happening with the old northside Rail Road tracks that were torn out? The tracks that used to service the State Fair, running along Allisonville then between Allisonville and Binford, around the Kessler Blvd and 62nd street area? They removed the tracks, currently just gravel and overgrown weeds.
The Nickel Plate Trail will go through design as part of Circle City Forward Phase III. This makes it much more eligible for State and Federal grant dollars, since it would be ready for construction.
That’s called the Nickel Plate Trail. It’s mentioned in the story that they have funding allocated for design work, but not yet for construction.
Thank you AT. and Paul L. I appreciate it, I asked prior to fully reading and missed that. Thank you.
That’s going to be a game changer for those of us who want to bike-commute to downtown from Fishers as well as all the development sure to spawn along the Nickel Plate Trail. #PaveTheNickelPlate
Regarding the complaints about the maintenance of the Monon Trail. Has anybody walked the canal recently? Same thing there, the city builds something with never any plans or funding in place to maintain it.
The Monon Yard Neighborhood at 28th Street and the Monon Trail. I’ve been told today this is not an official entrance to the trail. Unbelievable 20 years and we can’t get DMD to remove the scrub trees, metal interstate barricade, or cover an open manhole so we can safely enter the trail. Just tired…
I’m all for more trails but I think we need to pay better attention to quality of the trails we’re building. For instance that map shows a trail along Allisonville Road. Anyone who’s travelled that road knows that “trail” is little more than a couple of stripes on the road and seems to end at several intersections only start again on the other side. There’s a world of difference between that and the Monon yet they are both called trails. I think we need to be more specific about what is a trail and what isn’t. It’s dangerous to ride a bike on Allisonville Road.
Quick story: a couple of years ago Noblesville was bragging about having completed 100 miles of trails. They even commemorated it with a monument on a trail. I live and ride here and could not find 100 miles of trails so I inquired where they were. The parks director sent me a map with lines denoting trails along many city streets that didn’t have trails or even sidewalks. When I asked how he justified calling those streets trails he replied that trail designation wasn’t an “exact science” and the city decided that streets that connect to trails can be considered trails. My objections went nowhere. The monument is still there.
Trails are popular and cities like to brag about having them but I think we need to hold our city officials accountable for creating trails that are more than roads with a bike lane or city streets that “double” as trails.