Indy Connect Mass Transit Red Line Planned from Westfield to Greenwood

This article originally posted to currentincarmel.com on December 1, 2015 by Sam Elliott.

Sean Northup, the assistant director of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization, presented an update on the area’s mass transit plans to community leaders, legislators and transportation industry professionals during the All-County Legislative Breakfast Fall Forum Nov. 13 at The Mansion at Oak Hill in Carmel.

The main topic of Northup’s update was Indy Connect, the region’s initiative of transit plans involving a series of electric bus rapid transit lines — with the first phase of the initial line, which will include bus stations and some road expansions, scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 2017.

“Bus rapid transit has become the state of the art in transportation technology,” Northup said. “The whole idea with bus rapid transit is that it can mimic all of the characterizations of light rail generally at a fraction of the cost.”

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