Talking Headways Podcast: Bus Lanes at the Crossroads of America

This week, we are joined by Sean Northup, deputy director of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization. Northup chats about the Indianapolis Red Line, the first of three bus rapid transit routes that will crisscross the region. Those lines and other transit improvements are being funded in part by local, dedicated funding which was won after a long and arduous process.

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Indianapolis has a big downtown, but the bus network is not set up to serve it well, and compact development is scarce in the rest of the city. Photo: Evan Walsh/Wikimedia Commons

Can Transit Work Well in a Sprawling City Like Indianapolis?

By Yonah Freemark | Jun 22, 2017

Transit service in Indianapolis is scarce and very few people use the existing system. A key reason for these lackluster outcomes is the city's sprawling pattern of development.

Getting Bus Rapid Transit Right — Indianapolis Looks for Examples

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 3, 2013

More and more cities are opting to upgrade their transit networks with rapid bus routes. But as we’ve discussed before, few are actually creating true Bus Rapid Transit. In it’s most effective form, BRT would have all the elements that make bus rapid transit, well, rapid — lanes where cars don’t slow down transit, station […]

The Red Line will be a trunk route in Indianapolis's new frequent bus network. Image: IndyGo

The Bus Network Redesign in Indianapolis Will Be Like Launching a Brand New Transit System

By Yonah Freemark | Jul 11, 2017

What Indianapolis is doing deserves attention, especially from other spread-out American cities looking to spend their transit dollars as efficiently as possible. The big change is a complete reshaping of bus service, which will be like setting up a brand new transit network.

A rendering of Indianapolis' under-construction Red Line Bus Rapid Transit project. Image: Indygo

Indianapolis’s Transit Investment is Starting to Pay Off

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 12, 2018

More service = more riders. The patterns holds true in Indy, which is ramping up transit service.

Talking Headways Podcast: What Midsize Cities Can Learn From Albuquerque

By Jeff Wood | Mar 15, 2018

This week we chat with Brian Reilly about integrating transportation and land use in Albuquerque, where a new bus rapid transit line, ART, forms a backbone of frequent and reliable service for the city's transit system.

Transit Vote 2016: Indianapolis’s Chance to Get a Real Transit System

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 13, 2016

The presidency and Congress aren’t the only things at stake when voters go to the polls next month. In several cities, people will also be deciding the future of their transit and transportation systems. With the odds of increasing federal transit funding looking remote in gridlocked Washington, these local ballot measures take on even more importance. Before […]