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INDIANAPOLIS DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER Site Selection Presentation

DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER SITE Guiding Principles • Urgency – Need to deploy $11.5 Million from Federal Congressional Earmarks + $5 Million Local. • Site Control must be feasible and realistic. • Site and new center must work with and enhance the current bus system today. • Selected site must also be “ futureproof ” – Works today… and with future BRTs, Rail and Indy Connect. • Ohio Street “transfers” need to be addressed. • “Downtown Loop” system needs to be addressed. • Site and Transit Center must add value: • Dignity for current riders, “brand” change and potential revenue for IndyGo, positive real estate influence for surrounding properties. 2

LONG TERM RECOMMENDATION: A Primary Transit Center with Secondary Transfer Hubs. Funding for the Downtown Transit Center needs to be deployed 1 st Hubs at IUPUI, IU Heath, Tourism, Mass Ave. to phase in with IndyConnect. 3 3

TRANSIT CENTER: TRANSFER HUBS: Works Today, Inspirational, Well Designed, Partnerships, Buildable in Near Future Mixed-Use Potential EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE: Allentown, PA Detroit EXAMPLE: Birksire, England EXAMPLE: Indianapolis – Ivy Tech …or more elaborate architecture. 4

Michigan Street Ohio Street: Triangle parking lot, with Works for IndyGo today, private site control: too Poor fit in the Right of remote from downtown + Way, historic preservation poor integration for future Market Square: Pan Am Plaza: Public site control: would Private/difficult site take significant land away control: good from development + shift current/future transit transit further east. operations. A future transfer hub site? South St./Lucas Oil Lot: Poor integration with bus today and transit Post Office Site: in future. Conflicts with large crowds and plans for pedestrian-oriented South Street. Unavailable WHAT SITES WERE / HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED? Recent Study + 2010 Downtown Transit Center Study 5

RECOMMENDED SITE for DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER 1.9 Acre Parking Lot South of City/County Building 6

Why Here? Indy Bike • Best fit to Guiding Hub Principles. • It can be a part of the Market revitalization of the City/County 451 Market Square Market Square Site. Building Sites Project • 1.9 Acres is well-suited (Bank One) to improve transit Cultural Trail operations/routing/spe ed. (today + future) • Shifts transfers from PROPOSED Ohio Street. SITE • Possible catalyst to reinvigorate the CCB Plaza area. Heliport • No property tax loss – Public to Public Use. • It directly engages the Banker’s Cultural Trail and can Life become the major east Parking Garage gateway to Downtown. Fieldhouse RECOMMENDED SITE for DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER 1.9 Acre Parking Lot South of City/County Building 7

Site Control Challenges: • Site is owned by the Indianapolis Marion Market County Building City/County Square Authority (IMCBA). Building Sites • Currently Sheriff, Crime Lab and Jail Parking Lot Cultural Trail (255 Spaces) – Where to relocate? • Tunnel under site PROPOSED connects CCB with Jail. SITE (Opportunity for improvement – also possible below grade parking) Banker’s Life Parking Garage RECOMMENDED SITE for DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER 1.9 Acre Parking Lot South of City/County Building 8

TODAY: The Transfer Station is the road itself. 3, 5EB, 10EB, 10 WB, 15, 18, 2, 3, 5WB, 10EB, 19, 34, 37, 38, 10WB, 11, 15, 2, 5WB, 39, 50 5EB 17, 18, 19, 21, 11, 17, 21 34, 37, 38, 39, 50 30/23 2/2 37/29 9/8 5/3 8WB, 55 4, 8WB, 12/6 16, 24, 28 8EB, 55 5/3 TC FUTURE: X/Y: Peak/Off Peak Buses Per Hour 4, 8EB, 12/6 The Transfer 16, 24, 6/4 X, Y, Z: Existing IndyGo Bus Routes 28 6/4 Station is 2/1 2/1 12, 13, 12, 13, the Transit Inbound Routes 14, 22 14, 22 31 Center. 31 Outbound Routes BUS ROUTING Improves Flow in Downtown with Current System 9

DOES THE SITE WORK WITH FUTURE PLANNING? Works Well with Routing Alternatives for Indy Connect 10

THE SITE AS A CENTRAL POINT IN THE FUTURE EAST / WEST AND NORTH / SOUTH ROUTING as well as BUS CIRCULATION 11

• Up to 24 Bus docking areas accommodated – full transfer capabilities for the entire system. • Could also be a location for Mega Bus, Greyhound and other transit services. • Possible below grade connections to north side of Washington Street. IT WORKS – IN MANY CONFIGURATIONS Potential Site Layout Options 12

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INSPIRATIONAL DESIGN Bus Transfer Stations from International Locations 13

IMAGE DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY EDEN COLLABORATIVE HOW MIGHT IT LOOK? An Artist’s Representation of a Future Transit Center 14