Setting the chessboard for the months to come in transpo policy Editor's note: This story was published in the January 24, 2025 edition of Indiana Transportation Insight. Can you believe the first month of the 2025 legislative session is [...]
2025 off to an icy start, agencies makes up for Dec. snow response When people hear about impending severe weather in the Midwest, they may hesitate to take it seriously. Dramatic fluctuations in weather are common, and predictions can [...]
We explore various options for constructing Hoosier roadways As we’ve extensively detailed for you, Indiana’s roads couldn’t be more of a hot topic for legislators right now. Shortly after the conclusion of the 2024 legislative session, House Committee on [...]
INDOT has a road funding trump card heading into session As you we’ve recounted for you in these pages, the recent completion of the I-69/I-465 interchange connected the crossroads from Evansville all the way to the Canadian border. That [...]
Ruling challenges roadbuilding DBE efforts for Hoosiers and more A major court ruling late last month shook up not just the Hoosier transportation paradigm . . . but may have also struck a major blow to diversity, equity, and [...]
Lawmakers ponder Community Crossings, road funding formula “I may have just heard, for the first time in eight years, that Community Crossings was ill-conceived,” Rep. Ed Soliday (R) of Valparaiso needles. “Are you sure [your] presentation isn’t really that [...]
The “landmark ordinance” seeks to eliminate traffic fatalities The Indy Pedestrian Safety Crisis group on August 20 labeled the past 10 days as the worst week-and-a-half in years for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities. Seven people either sustained [...]
Decades in the making, I-69 EVL-IND reaches the Finish Line Down a stretch of road on 2200 West Epler Avenue, a 1974 Indianapolis 500 pace car adorned with large U.S. and Indiana flags approaches a throng of reporters and [...]
Goshen latest to join “wild, wild Midwest” of street-legal golf carts\ In the sequel to the classic sci-fi film Back to the Future, protagonist Marty McFly travels from 1985 to 2015. The film encapsulates 1985’s vision of futuristic transportation [...]
Examining what’s to come from IndyGo and South Shore DT In a sprawling metropolis, mass transit is a hot topic of conversation. In recent years, Indianapolis has invested more than ever in bike share programs, IndyGo’s bus rapid transit, [...]