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planned Red Rapid Transit Line, according to the Indy Connect website. The planned northsouth route will run from Carmel to Greenwood through downtown Indianapolis.
According to Indy Connect, the Red Line will be a Bus Rapid Transit system. This
style of rapid transit combines elements of both light rail and buses. Assistant Executive
Director of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization Sean Northup said the
decision to add UIndy as a stop came after research into the area.
That was a very big, methodical analysis to understand which streets had the
highest potential to carry high capacity where is the build environment rate, where is the
density, where are there sidewalks? Northup said.
The choice was between Madison and Shelby streets. Northup said that because
Madison is a sunken street, and because the university has thousands of people on its
campus every day, Shelby Street was selected.
President Robert Manuel said that he sees this as a great result of the Five-Year Plan.
For any major, urban city there are a number of ways and corridors that people
travel. And along those corridors, you find vibrant arts communities, vibrant living
communities, vibrant economic development zones, he said. To be on one [corridor]
that the city is considering shows potential for all of that to happen, with university input
and certainly with private interest along and around campus. I think it will help with the
development of the area.
According to communications director for Mayor Greg Ballard Marc Lotter,
construction on the line could begin in 2016 or 2017, depending on how the project
receives the majority of its funding.
Earlier this year, the Indianapolis Red Line Planning Studies group received a
$2,073,200 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Transportation