Zionsville officials are working toward a final design and a construction timeline for a downtown revitalization called Main Street Momentum as nearby business owners watch with both eagerness and anxiety.
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Embrace Downtown is underway, the plan that envisions a pedestrian-friendly plaza, wider sidewalks, places to sit, and parking rules that are more consistent and easier to understand.
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Over the next two months, neighborhoods across Indianapolis will gather to build temporary, resident-led science experiments on Indianapolis’ roadways.
The nearly 2-mile stretch north to south from Interstate 65 to Interstate 70 is one of downtown’s busiest streets and reaches up to eight lanes in some places.
Officials have slated $19.7 million for the Department of Public Works, mostly for capital projects, snow removal and road safety.
Town leaders want to improve and widen a 2.2-mile stretch of West 236th Street from State Road 38 to just east of Six Points Road; they want the county to help with the financing.
Allowing each councilor to choose an improvement project is part of an initiative by Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration to invest in roads, parks and dangerous intersections throughout Marion County.
But some city-county councilors are so tired of waiting on the Legislature to act that they are suggesting exploring city-based solutions.
Broadway Street in Fortville is a mess of orange construction cones and heavy equipment, with traffic backing up at rush hour and nobody getting anywhere quickly. It’s been this way for 16 months.
The City-County Council is expected on Monday night to approve a sweeping measure that has the ambitious goal of eliminating pedestrian fatalities by 2035.
Each street running below the overpasses—including adjacent stretches in the open air—would undergo improvements, to cut down on vehicle parking, increase pedestrian access and pay homage to historical and cultural milestones in the city’s history.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett also announced a plan to spend at least $30 million more in 2024 on residential street and alley improvements, school pedestrian safety and increased traffic enforcement in bike lanes.
Indianapolis officials hope an alliance with other central Indiana leaders will finally persuade legislators to either alter the formula or find other ways to provide more infrastructure dollars to densely populated areas.
Officials are working on finding the $60 million, which will likely include federal funding, to pay for it.
The county is moving forward with a $29 million, 18-month construction project that will create a roundabout on Allisonville Road at East 146th Street, with East 146th converted to an overpass.
Work to improve stormwater drainage, plus bridge repair and additions of a trail and elevated crosswalks, will disrupt Broad Ripple through next spring.
Residents are taking a do-it-yourself approach to tweaking specific stretches of road by their schools, businesses and neighborhoods to better protect children and neighbors.
The city identified 605 residential lane miles across Indianapolis that are in particularly poor condition. The city is allocating enough money to fix only about 10% of those miles, starting as soon as next spring.
Officials are estimating the corridor improvements will run $47 million over the project’s original $124 million budget.
An $8 million DPW budget increase proposed Thursday would add street operators and a second shift of operations. Also on Thursday, the public works committee unanimously approved a proposal to appropriate $40 million in revenue bonds to fund road and bridge infrastructure.
Lyft, the San-Francisco-based ride-sharing company, has plans to deploy as many as 1,200 scooters in Indianapolis after receiving final approval from the city Thursday.
By 2022, the city and the Indiana Department of Transportation expect to begin widening a half-mile section of the thoroughfare from Shamrock Boulevard to East Street.
