6B: Bicycle & Pedestrian Paths

Value to the Community

Neighborhood infrastructure like sidewalks promotes livability, healthy living, and safety. Such infrastructure connects regional trails to local destinations and also provides a highly visible presence of bicycles and pedestrians, making biking and walking a key component of our community’s culture. Consumer preferences also continue to embrace walkability as a key neighborhood desire when choosing where to live.

Value to the Hospitality Industry

This neighborhood-scale infrastructure provides safe connections from the greenway system to nearby attractions, restaurants, and neighborhoods, increasing the ability for visitors to access these destinations on foot or on bike. They offer the ability to create more "loop" pathways or means to explore more of the city and its neighborhoods.

Updates

• April 2025. Calvary Street Bridge Lane Reimagined. A neighbor-led initiative has transformed a lane of the Calvary Street bridge into a protected multi-use path, aiming to improve safety and connectivity between Fletcher Place and north Fountain Square.
• October 2023. Tactical Urbanism in Community Heights. To provide some traffic calming and a clear space for cyclists, the Community Heights Neighborhood Association has added another part to the 10th Street Tactical Urbanism Project giving painted green bike lanes with bollards to separate cyclists from car traffic.
• July 2023. Tickets for Parking in a Bike Lane. Indianapolis is making moves to try and crack down on the number of vehicles parking in a bike lane. Although it is already illegal, the city is giving ParkIndy permission to ticket and tow to increase the resources dedicated to addressing this issue.
• May 2023. MPO Creates a Safety Action Plan. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization updated its Safe Streets and Roads for All Safety Action Plan and an updated Vision Zero Resolution. This plan's development addressed the increase in severe and fatal traffic crashes. This plan also allows MPO communities to apply to the U.S. Department of Transportation notice of funding opportunity for Safe Street and Roads for All Discretionary Grant which provides funding for planning and implementation of infrastructure and initiatives designed to prevent these crashes.