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  1. Great vision. I remember when the State House was the end of downtown on the west side. West Street is a wannabe highway and it really does create a barrier.

    If only there was just a little bit of leadership at the state level and they’d lose this poop on Indianapolis attitude.

    1. Love the vision. The issue will be state legislators, many of whom don’t see a future worth investing in.

  2. This is a bold plan for the future of Indianapolis’ near westside/greater Indiana Avenue area which merits our best thinking and action. What is to come MUST include planning and design that incorporates the good people and places already in the “Downtown West” area. This is an area which has been bulldozed and nearly erased all in the name of progress more times in the last century than I care to think about. All good ideas can be accommodated with the right blend of brains, brawn, and heart. It has been done before. Pay attention to the best of those ideas, please. Time to step up Indianapolis and get this right!

  3. Priorities should include an additional BRT line connecting IU Indy to the transit center so that students don’t need to rely on cars to get to/from class and a cultural trail extension along West St for much the same reason. Public space should be de-prioritized over office and dense residential space. That area already has the canal, White River St Park, etc for green space. This could lead to an opportunity to redevelop the canal so that it looks more like a Mass Ave for the westside one day.

    1. Most of the students are coming from Hendricks county or southern Hamilton with a few from greenwood. Idea is good to connect to transit center but the students don’t drive that need. They need better outside county connections and routes. West side busses go through this campus already .

    2. Micheal N.
      +1
      I like the idea of a connector to the heart of downtown.
      Maybe even put in a Campus bus run for I.U. and Purdue students with a multiple drop off sites downtown.Like the Circle, convention center area,
      Transit Center, Mass Avenue, and Gainbridge FieldHouse area.
      Right now it is difficult for the students on campus to access downtown without a car.
      Plus many of the students are foreign and only drive if it’s absolutely necessary.

    3. Well said, Keith! Mark, I hadn’t considered that a good number of students are commuting from suburbs, and probably living at home while they do. My hope is that, over time, IU Indy becomes less a commuter campus and more one students want to live close to. Improving existing lines with BRT might help move the needle in that direction. It doesn’t have to be buses, though, even more Pacers Bikeshare stations would help. Those are extremely popular with the summer interns that my work brings in each year. Those interns almost never have cars

    4. This city absolutely does NOT NEED ANOTHER MONEY LOSING BRT LINE!!!!INdyGo screwed up ROYALLY when they ASSumed that I of I student would take the RedLine back and forth to Broad Ripple!!! That NEVER happened and WON’T HAPPEN!!! The biggest users of these stupid ass, money losing BRT lines, are the homeless sleeping in the shelters!!!!!!

    5. Micheal N.
      +1 again!
      Let’s give the students that attend I.U. / Purdue Indianapolis as many reasons as possible to move on campus or downtown.

      I knew many students that wanted to go downtown more often but didn’t have adequate transportation.

    6. Matt W.
      Not talking about another Indy Go bus line. I’m talking about a special shuttle bus or Trolley that would be dedicated to dropping off students and visitors at multiple places downtown. These pick up / drop off sites could include –

      I.U. / Purdue Campus Center
      Mass Ave.
      Stutz Building
      Gainbridge
      Lucas oil Stadium
      The Convention Center
      The Zoo
      Indiana State Museum
      Monument Circle
      Bar District on South Meridian
      And several of the downtown hotels.

      * Downtown Nashville has something like this and it is hugely successful as a downtown people mover.*

      Again, not a big city bus. Just a couple of shuttle buses or Trolleys.

      Many students that I have come across would absolutely use this as would guests at downtown hotels. The students in particular would go downtown more often for entertainment if they didn’t have to drive.

      The university in conjunction with the city should absolutely collaborate on something like this.

    7. Over a decade ago, the original “Red Line” was a downtown-to-IUPUI loop. Free to ride. The Jagline, a glorified parking shuttle, has “replaced” it.

  4. There’s a need to divert traffic away from West Street and that should be the first priority. That requires allowing cars to access campus from the west side. So get cars coming off the I65 interstate from the north, to move west on 11th street to University Blvd. From I70 to the south, this will require very significant upgrades to Harding Street all the way to Washington Street and White River Parkway intersection, which needs to be properly aligned. I fear that upgrades to West Street alone will just induce demand.

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