Jordan Smith

5 days ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith

After CSX stopped running trains on the Monon Railroad in 1989, the company donated the old railbed to Indianapolis. The city built a multi-use path now used by more than 1 million people. Homeowners along the Monon Trail are now receiving cash offers from the city to buy portions of their backyards, as the city seeks to widen the trail. But homeowners say the city is asking for a wide swath of land that would encroach on their fences, garden beds and pools.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith

Here are 8 Indianapolis roads and bike trails under construction that will open in 2025 Jordan SmithThe city will convert Michigan and New York Streets from one-way to two-way, rehabilitate two bridges on the west side and improve the Market Street streetscape. New extensions of the Nickel Plate Trail will connect Indianapolis with Hamilton County, while the B&O Trail extends to Hancock County.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith

The archaeology firm excavating the Henry Street right-of-way for a major redevelopment project has found more grave shafts than expected at the site that includes a 200-year-old former cemetery. Indianapolis-based Stantec had identified 674 grave shafts in the original section of the former Greenlawn Cemetery called the "Old Burying Ground," as of May 2.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith

A state matching grant program could bring $100 million more a year to Indianapolis roads, but not to its sidewalks and bike paths. The city's 8,400 lane miles are chronically underfunded because the state's road-funding formula allots the same amount to a two-lane road and a six-lane road. The new law allows Indianapolis to triple certain taxes on vehicles to raise more revenue for roads.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith

A new $30 million bridge that links the 16 Tech Innovation District with the hospitals along 10th Street and the Indiana University School of Medicine is the first bridge in Indianapolis to devote more space to pedestrians and bicyclists than to vehicles. Spanning Fall Creek near where it meets the White River, the 342-foot-long "16 Tech Bridge" features two lanes of car traffic surrounded on either side by protected multi-use paths.