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09-05-2025
- Business
- Axios
Indy's $200 million construction season heats up
Indy's 2025 road construction is underway with the promise of improving hundreds of miles of roadway and pedestrian-focused pathways throughout the city. Why it matters: The work comes as Indianapolis continues to grapple with a pedestrian safety crisis and growing vehicle crash totals. The big picture: The projects detailed late last week by city officials at Hendricks Park are the next step of Mayor Joe Hogsett's five-year $1 billion capital improvement plan aimed at delivering $859 million in transportation improvements and $180 million in stormwater improvements. Zoom in: Work on the docket this year includes investing $200 million in transportation and $25 million in stormwater. It also includes phase one of the three-phase Madison Avenue Road Diet to improve safety on the south side corridor. Once complete in 2028, the $47 million project will remove two travel lanes, repave more than 16 miles, introduce the 7,200-foot Interurban Trail and add 15,000 linear feet of new curbs and sidewalks between Pleasant Run Parkway and Ray Street. The work is being funded with three rounds of federal grant dollars through the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization (IMPO). "This project is about more than just resurfacing a road — it's about reimagining how people move through and experience their neighborhoods," said City-County Councilor Kristin Jones who represents the district and serves as chair of the council's Public Works Committee. State of play: Other big projects scheduled to take shape this season include the $22.7 million Union Station bridge rehabilitation, $14.6 million in streetscape work along 10th and Rural streets, the $20 million conversion of Michigan and New York streets and $18.7 million in improvements along Girls School Road. By the numbers: Crews are working on: ♿ 1,300 new or rehabilitated ADA ramps. 🚲 15 miles of new bike lanes. 🌉 17 bridges. 🌳 Planting 1,077 new trees. 🚶 Introducing 163,976 linear feet of trails. 💦 More than 37,000 linear feet of new or rehabbed storm sewers. What they're saying: "The 2025 construction season is going to be transformational for our city," Hogsett said. "None of these infrastructure improvements would be possible without our dedicated, hardworking team at Indy DPW who will turn more than a quarter of a billion-dollar investment into real, material improvements to our streets." Zoom out: Indy's construction plans were rolled out just weeks after the Indiana Department of Transportation officially marked the start of its 2025 construction season while recognizing National Work Zone Awareness Week. According to INDOT commissioner Lyndsay Quist, more than 1,200 projects are planned statewide with nearly 200 of them focused on improved traffic flow and safety. The host project for INDOT's construction season kickoff was the two-year I-65 Safety and Efficiency project on Indy's southeast side that stretches from north of the I-465 interchange to just south of the I-65/I-70 overpass near Fletcher Avenue. What we're watching: The forecast. This massive year of road work is all weather dependent, and conditions in Indiana these days are growing both more extreme and more unpredictable.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Yahoo
Another Hamilton County trail extension is in the works. You may recognize the name
An historic Hamilton County park will nearly double in size and a newly funded trail nine years in-the-making will connect it to Cicero under a long-term recreation plan. The county last week received a $3.1 million grant from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization to connect Cicero to Potters Bridge Park in northern Noblesville by greenway. The money will pay for the second and final section of the Steven Nation Community Pathway. The first 2.5-mile asphalt-paved leg stretches west-to-east along Jackson/234th Street from Cicero to the White River Campground. The second will cut a new path, south on Cumberland Road for 4.5-miles to the covered bridge at 194th Street and Allisonsville Road. 'We've been working on this a while now,' Chris Stice, director of the Hamilton County Parks and Recreation department, said. 'But it is important because a top request among park users is for more trails.' The county started planning the Steven Nation trail in 2016 and after three applications for loans, received $1.04 million from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for the first phase in 2021. The county contributed $590,000 for construction, which was completed in 2023. Stice said the rest of the Nation Trail will be built in 2028, a full 12 years since planning started. The trail link coincides with a planned expansion of Potters Bridge Park. The county recently bought 50 acres of farmland next to the 75-acre park that will bulge it from a mostly linear, shaded trail along the White River to a broader nature area, likely with a trail loop and other attractions. The park now features the greenway, a canoe launch, picnic areas, fishing areas and the covered bridge — a selfie-magnet and favorite haunt of nature photographers. The Potter's Bridge Fall Fest attracts 6,000 visitors and 100 vendors each year. Potters Bridge is one of 90 covered bridges left standing in Indiana, which once had 600 of them, according to the Indiana Covered Bridge Society. It was built in 1871, listed in the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures inventory in 1978 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Stice said from the bridge, trail users will be able to use a series of other greenway trails to explore downtown Noblesville and beyond. County Commissioner Mark Heirbrandt said the Steven Nation trail is an important connector between north and south Hamilton County of which its namesake would be proud. In fact, he is proud. Nation works down the hall from Heirbrandt at the Hamilton County Government Center as a member of county council. He previously served 24 years as a county judge and 16 as a prosecutor. Nation has been a member of several civic boards and received the state's highest awards for community and public service. 'Steve has always been a person who connected people and communities, so we thought what better way to recognize that than name the trail for him,' Heirbrandt said. Call IndyStar reporter John Tuohy at 317-444-6418. Email at and follow on X/Twitter and Facebook. This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Greenway to link Cicero to Potters Bridge Park gets cash to finish
