Traffic

A new tactical urbanism project aims to slow traffic at a busy and dangerous intersection on the north side.

A Marion County team will take a close look at dangerous intersections as part of a new fatal crash study.

Speed cameras on a few highway work zones around Indiana are expected to arrive in late summer or early fall.

Starting this week commuters on the southeast side of Indianapolis will be greeted with new features on Interstate-465. The change will be new systems called ramp meters, a variable speed limit system, and dynamic message signs.

Traffic fatalities in Indiana are up 17 percent over the last four years. And while state lawmakers are digging into the data on traffic safety, a study committee adopted its yearly report Wednesday without any recommendations.

The Indianapolis City-County Council introduced proposals Monday evening to create “no turn on red” intersections in the downtown area.

Officials with the Indiana Department of Transportation say the years-long push to connect Indiana north to south via Interstate 69 is on schedule to open to traffic in 2024.

Three Indianapolis mayoral candidates participated in a public forum on the city's neighborhoods. When asked how they would improve commuter traffic on the city's northeast side, each candidate had a different solution.

Workers with the Indiana Department of Transportation started work Monday on the project that will essentially eliminate movement across all four lanes of U.S. 41 in Knox County near Oaktown.

The first closure will be of I-65 northbound between its interchanges with Interstate 465 and Interstate 865 starting 9 p.m. June 14 until July 1. Closure of the southbound lanes is scheduled from July 12 until July 29.