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William Hazen

3 years

3 generations- All started out as young city bus drivers. Proud to continue the tradition @IndyGoBus 💪🏼 My Grandfather, William J. Hazen, Ottawa KS, My Father, Ryan Hazen, Dallas-FtW, TX, Myself, Indianapolis, IN.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

good to know this keeps Ethan up at night

Ethan Hatcher

@EthanHatcher

1 month

They literally want to turn us into New York. 🙄 I promise you that no self-respecting Hoosier wants to be like New York City. High density housing is corrosive to the human spirit. People want houses, not dense concrete and steel nightmares. Central planners never learn. 😡

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William Hazen

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Famously, humans all froze to death because we never created a ‘room’ where we could ‘wait’ for the train without exposing ourselves to the elements.

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@aaron_renn

4 months

@WilliamHazen7 Days like today show why we don’t rely on trains anymore. Nobody wants to stand on a frigid platform waiting for a train.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

5 months

Currently reading a book that mentions how dignitaries from Germany and Japan used to visit Indiana because they were so impressed with the state’s rapid, electrified interurban rail network.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

‘No one is forcing you to drive’ Well, if you eliminate every other viable alternative, you definitely are forcing people to drive.

Tony Katz

@tonykatz

2 months

@ReesWimmer No one is forcing you to drive, but it is very clear that there is a move to push cars off the road. Red Line, Blue Line, Vision Zero....all are about limiting cars and limiting mobility. That's wrong. It should be stopped.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

11 months

City buses are used all over the world for mass evacuations, and every city and transit agency has a plan in place on how buses will be used in the event of a mass evacuation. This is an incredibly naïve take.

Justine Barron

@jewstein3000

11 months

Transit purists caught in wildfire smoke can maybe think about if you expect disabled folks, asthmatics etc to wait outside for buses, no problem. And what about when the wildfires approach your homes? Wait outside for public escape vehicles??

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

11 months

A lot of things can startle a bus driver- drivers cutting you off or somebody’s bag falling on the floor of the bus. But nothing comes close to deadheading back to the garage in the middle of the night with the cabin lights off and the bus goes: *DING* STOP REQUESTED

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 years

When a transit agency in a city of over 800,000 people ends service on most lines at 9:20pm, it has the same effect as giving adults a curfew, and limiting access to so many opportunities. There is no excuse for any city of over 500k to not have 24hr transit service.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 years

Every transit agency with a full admin parking lot is a failure. If transit officials aren’t relying on the services they promote, plan, and run, they won’t understand the problems with the system.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

Well, Dustin, in 1926, the Federal Government decided to start subsidizing roads for cars instead of investing in the existing network of efficient interurbans, trains, streetcars, and buses. This led to the eventual decline of public transportation networks across…

Dustin Grove

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Heads up — Traffic on I-65 north between Indianapolis and Lafayette is horrific this evening. Bumper to bumper. What is going on??

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

29 days

A vacant K-Mart turns into 340 homes 2018 ➡️ 2023 📍Bloomington, IN

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

As a bus driver, I cannot stand these engagement bait reels. Like, 1.) if you pick up a passenger out of a wheelchair, that’s immediate cause for termination, 2.) buses have perfectly functional wheelchair ramps that are safer and easier for everyone involved.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

Every American city with a population greater than about ~5k should have at least a couple of these bad boys.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

When I first started biking in Ottawa, I HATED this oddball bike lane. Now that I’ve used it almost every day, I’ve realized that this design doesn’t fill up with grit, it eliminates the potential of right hook crashes, and keeps cyclists in the driver’s immediate field of view.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

When Indianapolis develops a book of pre-approved housing plans, a key goal of the plan should be increasing density along transit lines through gentle density. Indianapolis won’t look like Manhattan tomorrow, but we can create walkable, people centric spaces.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

In 1929, a rush hour trip from downtown Indy to Carmel took exactly 50min on a fast, electric Union Traction Interurban. Today, that same trip takes 55min-1hr 5 min by car at rush hour. No transit is available. We leveled our city to move 5min slower. That’s “progress”.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

In the UK, you can still pick up a Ford Fiesta or Focus alongside newer compact offerings. In the United States, the only ‘car’ Ford still sells is the Mustang. Our roads will only continue to get deadlier when consumers only have the option to buy taller, heavier cars.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

18 days

I wonder where they learned that trick

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

25 days

Nothing I can say, a total eclipse of the bus

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

7 months

There is absolutely no reason for anyone to go to Carmel, Indiana

Out of Context Human Race

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Name a place in USA simply not worth visiting.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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wHaT dOeS tHe MaYoR oF sOUTh bEnD kNOw aboUt tRANspORTaTiOn poLicy

Action Committee for Transit

@actfortransit

3 months

‼️USDOT has rejected Maryland's application for a $2.4 billion grant for the project to widen I-495/I270‼️

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

11 months

Sometimes the tension builds up on the cord during the day, and the smallest bump will trigger the stop request cord and scare the living daylights out of you.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

Got questions about driving a city bus? Maybe something you’ve always wondered? Ask away, and I’ll do my best to answer!

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

Statehouse Republicans have made it very clear now. This isn’t about public transportation or street safety, it’s about punishing Indianapolis any way they can.

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@MhacklerTV

2 months

The amendment passes 8-4. The bill will only impact Indianapolis now.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

8 months

I am literally foaming at the mouth

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

6 months

Absolutely wild to me that three municipalities in Indiana with a combined population of less than 14,000 can get together and run an effective public transit system, and yet four municipalities with a population more than 23 times that can’t muster a single bus.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

Speed Limit: 25 Design Speed: 70

Indy Pedestrian Safety Crisis

@IndyPedCrisis

4 months

🚨 INCIDENT UPDATE: This incident has been confirmed to be a FATAL INCIDENT. District 18: Joe Hogsett, Mayor ( @IndyMayorJoe ) Bike Indianapolis, Advocate ( @BikeIndpls ) Kristin Jones, Councilor (kristin.jones @indy .gov) #IndyPedestrianSafetyCrisis

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

Often enough, a nonprofit group will reach out and ask if I can show a newly resettled family how to live w/o a car in Indy. 80% of the time, I have to decline because the location they have resettled this family in makes it physically impossible. Here’s an example: 1/ 🧵

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 years

Pittsburgh said screw your slip lane, it’s a bike lane now.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

Seeing your city councilor ride past you on a bike, not for a photo-op or special ride, but just riding it for transportation is an absolutely god-level euphoria that gives me hope for this city.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

25 days

‘Your city sucks, I drove through it’ is approaching unholy levels of brain rot

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@gsasala97

25 days

@WilliamHazen7 Idk dude Indianapolis kinda sucks I remember I drove through it last year and the highway straight up ended, and I had to drive through downtown and nearly got stuck in mud that was in the middle of the city

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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a few things here: let’s stop siloing ourselves as urbanists. Chicago and New York aren’t the only two cities on earth, and you will not win friends to the urbanist movement by pretending like they are. 1/

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

The real time data on these screens appears to indicate the bus serviced these stations less than two minutes before the photos were taken. Why would you stand and wait 13 minutes before the bus is due?

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@danielgood1

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2nd trip down College today. Business is booming on the Red Line. This is the norm. I drive it 4x a day minimum.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 years

After pulling in at 12:23am on 10/5, I completed 3 years of service with IndyGo! I’m exceptionally happy to also celebrate: 3 years of Safe Driving 3 years w/o a negative customer comment and thousands of customers carried safely to their destinations! Here’s to what’s next!

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

Which city in Indiana over 40k is the closest to ending car dependence? By far, the answer is West Lafayette, with over 31.5% of residents walking, biking, or taking transit to work. The number of residents who drive to work is just two percentage points over a majority.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

Gotta keep the poors out of a publicly funded park! 1/3

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

Unfortunately, SB 52 to prohibit dedicated bus lanes has advanced out of committee, 7-5. Keep calling your legislators, keep being annoying. Keep fighting.

William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

Spoke before the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee rocking my bus only scarf from @theoverheadwire , telling them to keep their hands off our bus lanes, and dedicating my remarks to the four riders I’ve lost to traffic violence on Washington Street.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

@mtndewmartini Court.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

We love walking in the City of Indianapolis

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

28 days

@the_transit_guy Indy kinda looks like a slice of swiss cheese

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

7 months

Last night around midnight, I stopped to celebrate my 4 year anniversary with @IndyGoBus . Grateful for every mile, every passenger, every teammate, and every lesson learned!

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

6 months

The abandoned Amtrak Station at Michigan City, Indiana. The station was closed due to low ridership and competition from the South Shore Line in April 2022.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

That’s right- I’ve made hating cars my entire personality. You can find me in anti-car spaces like: -The owners magazine for Subaru cars - Written up by a local radio station for an Instagram car account I used to run - Racing IndyCar drivers at local kart tracks

Josie ジョシー 🇵🇸

@JosieWeather

2 months

There is something unlikable about people who just make hating cars their entire personality. America should invest in high speed rail, it should curb reliance on cars and should prioritize density but going around Twitter yelling at anyone who drives a car doesn’t help

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

7 months

Mountain Dew Dorito Cookies- There’s More to Discover IN Indiana

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

11 months

Thank God I’m a Hoosier! 🫡

Riley Choe

@rileychoe1

11 months

Thank god I'm Korean. I could really go for some stir-fried anchovies rn..

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

My fellow Hoosiers, we choose to build 3 BRT lines in this decade and do all the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Ask not what bus lanes can do for you, but what you can do for dedicated bus lanes by showing up to the Statehouse, Tomorrow at 8:30am!

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

@AdamsSteve8604 agree. way too many cars, not enough bus lanes and street trees.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

Well, I’m glad my riders weren’t sitting there.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

7 months

Exciting news from the South Shore Line: - Phase One of Double Track, between Dune Park and Michigan City, will open the week of 10/16 -The board approved $200 million in bonds to convert a storage track into main 4 at Millennium

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

6 months

The South Shore Line: We’ll soon run 12 trains per day from Dyer to Downtown Chicago, completing the journey in only 47 minutes, with several local stops to serve your commuting needs. Amtrak: Best I can do is a thrice-weekly, non stop service that takes 91 minutes.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

@EthanHatcher @JesseForIndy Have you heard of ‘security theatre’ before? When people like you are afraid of something for no reason, ‘security theatre’ is implemented to coddle your fears.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 years

@the_transit_guy Uber running a car company while also saying how bad cars are:

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

6 months

Jefferson Shreve has said he is going to end the ‘War on Cars’ in Indianapolis. He has also said his favorite spot to hangout is the Dugout in Fletcher Place, home to a protected cycle track, slow traffic, and a BRT route.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

8 months

@north0fnorth @jeremyzorek Carmel has been offered multiple forms of public transportation multiple times, with the city of Indianapolis even running pilot projects for public transit. Each time, Carmel has shot it down.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

11 months

Last trip of the night yesterday, I pull up to a tinted shelter on the Eastside. Two taps on the horn are enough to rouse the regular in the shelter. He slowly gets up, climbs on, swipes his card. Passing me, he sings out, ‘best bus driverrrr in the worlddddd’. 1/3

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

Spoke before the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee rocking my bus only scarf from @theoverheadwire , telling them to keep their hands off our bus lanes, and dedicating my remarks to the four riders I’ve lost to traffic violence on Washington Street.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

At major terminals where lines were longer, it’s a shame we didn’t think of some ‘shed’ or ‘shelter’ type design to cover the platforms and hold some heat and block wind and precipitation.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

Needless hardship for Irvington was the loss of a 7 year old girl killed by drivers racing down a street, plowing onto a sidewalk and murdering her. Deadly street design permits this, and you support the guy who has stonewalled safety improvements.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

A snowy Saturday morning on the Red Line ❄️

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

Most americans don’t realize what highways looked like before the government bankrolled them, in an era when public transit was fast, frequent, and profitable. Our decision to invest in highways created a legacy of generational harm, ecological destruction, and broken budgets.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

13 days

Folks, we have 🟥 on Maryland

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

just two unionized gays @DebsMuseum

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

5 months

God bless whatever saint submitted Santa Claus, Indiana to the people for bikes city ratings so Carmel wouldn’t be the best biking city in Indiana 🙏🏼

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

Jockamo Pizza has withdrawn their support for SB 52, perhaps the most significant blow to @FreemanForIndy to date.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

8 months

Exciting news in the transit business: Solaris is entering the North American market with BEB’s, Hydrogen buses, and Trolleybuses! I would LOVE to see a Trollino 24 on the streets of Dayton 😍

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

@NevermoreIndy lol are you delusional? They just went bankrupt. It’s a gadgetbahn meant to kill actual functional public transportation.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

10 months

This is Eva. Eva is one of my regular riders, and is known for her friendly smile and her willingness to assist customers with mobility challenges as they board and alight buses. Last night, she said that Bike Party sounded like fun, and she wished she had a bike to join us. 1/2

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

10 months

Interesting addition to @Strava when you label your ride as a commute. Definitely a much easier way for folks to quantify how much pollution you prevent when you bike to work!

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

@chemdawgrei (it’s a staged video) This is not at all how we do it. We use automatic wheelchair ramps and have fully accessible buses.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

This is the biggest challenge Indianapolis will face if we are to be serious about tackling climate change and infrastructure deficits. This satellite image shows two new neighborhoods cropping up on former farmland. There’s a few things we should note. 🧵1/

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

@alanthefisher The overnight ‘Dixie Flyer’ between Indianapolis and Louisville- a electric interurban with sleeper and diner service.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

My favorite comment at the SB 52 hearing was the guy that claimed IndyGo’s buses are charged with coal. My brother in christ, what do you think these do????

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

The Irvington Wellness Center has seemingly reversed its stance and come out in opposition of SB 52, supporting dedicated bus lanes for the @IndyGoBus Blue Line. Another blow to @FreemanForIndy .

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

In an email to stakeholders, the South Shore Line has announced that construction on Double Track NWI is now 97% complete. The railroad is scheduled to reopen to the public in May 2024 following a rigorous testing period.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

Indianapolis has: Canals like Venice, Monuments Like DC, Pyramids like Egypt, Bike Paths like Amsterdam and, Sports Venues that would put the Romans to shame and people have the nerve to say we’re not a World-Class city

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

4 months

The most beautiful Coastal villages in Indiana - a thread 🧵 1. Michigan City

Architecture & Tradition

@archi_tradition

4 months

The Most Beautiful Coastal Villages in Italy- a thread 🧵 1. Positano

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William Hazen

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Suburbs are like charter schools. When you get to pick who goes there, of course your ‘students’ tend to be immensely more successful. The whole system is a wealth extraction device designed to give the wealthy an advantage, and leave the poor further behind.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

2 months

If @SecretaryPete has the courage

Tim J 🏘️🌃🚲

@TweetsWithTim

2 months

@JeffSpeckFAICP Really great opportunity for @PeteButtigieg & @USDOT to withdraw federal funds to any state which preempts or prohibits municipal transit initiatives

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

nObODy rIDes tHe SoUtH ShORe sO wHy woUlD wE eXpANd iT

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

Despite the naysayers, the Red Line BRT enjoyed record ridership in 2022, and with more transit oriented development on the way, things are only looking up from here! 🚌

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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Today, I bought her a brand new bike from @IndyBicycle , and she’ll be joining us tonight. If you see her, wish her a happy new bike day, and drivers, give her space out there. Kindness begets kindness, and I’m thrilled we could get her set up with this new ride today! 2/2

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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If you’re looking for a new Eastside pizza place right now- Check out Futuro at Washington and Cruse (one of their delivery riders was seriously injured by a driver on Washington), King Dough (supports the MI/NY two way/bike lane project), and Sam’s (opens 2/2!)

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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Last night, I watched as massive cranes began dismantling the Clarian People Mover tracks. I remember watching it glide through the skyline as a kid, thinking of Indy as a big metropolis. I’m sad to see it go, and I hope the Red Line will inspire today’s kids.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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Trolleybus poles are a sweet and charming DFO to protect your new protected bike lane

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

@Nerd4Cities

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Everyone post your favorite DFO

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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This shows how out of touch @FreemanForIndy is. Thinking people can spend ~$60 per day to uber to work and back is insanely out of touch with reality. An IndyGo day pass is just $4.

Peter Blanchard

@peterlblanchard

2 months

Bill author Sen. Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, says he sees “fixed modes of transportation as a 19th, 20th century way of looking at the world” “I can get on my phone now and summon a car to take me anywhere I want to go in minutes”

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Test trains are making their way through the final phase of the South Shore Line’s Double Track NWI, testing signals in both directions, high speed crossovers, and much more! Stations are now substantially complete as well, and the project is on track to open this spring!

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William Hazen

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Aerial view of construction progress at Michigan City/11th along the South Shore Line. Double Track is nearing completion on this section, and TOD is still to come, but nice to see massive accessibility improvements already. 📸 Jeff Stupar

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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It’s so beautiful. Rest in pieces you horrible strip of asphalt 🙏🏼

William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 month

Saw the city removing a slip lane I had complained about for years on end this week and man it doesn’t feel like much, but a win is a win

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William Hazen

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@EthanHatcher @JesseForIndy New York City is one of the safest places on earth.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

1 year

December 31, 2022 will see the end of production for the Genfare Odyssey farebox. Chances are, if you’ve ridden a city bus anytime in the last 25 years, you probably paid your fare with one of these. RIP Odyssey 1997-2022

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William Hazen

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The longest pedestrian street in Indianapolis is in a place you may not expect. Nestled North of 465 near Keystone Crossing, Delegates Row was converted to a pedestrian street in 2019. At 3/10 of a mile, it takes the crown as the longest pedestrian street in the city.

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William Hazen

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I’m curious what ‘certain’ entails. Is ‘certain’ only applicable to a consolidated city with a population of over 500k? Make no mistake, this is how republicans act when they’re scared. They restrict voting and diminish access.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

3 months

The ‘I support SB 52!’ starter pack

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

10 months

This used to be one of the busiest highways through Indianapolis. 37 years ago, the process started to transform it into one of the most beloved parks in the city. Cars absolutely and totally ruin cities.

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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Maybe this is a hot take, but I feel like if Indianapolis wants to bleed suburban revenues outside of Marion County, they should work on eliminating sprawl, and bring back ‘villages’. These once walkable nodes have largely been overwhelmed by sprawl, but there’s hope yet. A 🧵 1/

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William Hazen

@WilliamHazen7

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This is especially funny when you remember INDOT is responsible for oversight of the South Shore Line, a rare regional railroad with electrified overhead in the midwest

tommy

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met the INDOT carbon reduction planner today and when I asked if they have considered using electrified trains (freight and passenger) they said "we hadn't considered that"

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Fort Wayne is moving on up! The city is now the nation’s 83rd largest per census data released this week, knocking off Toledo, OH. The city has not annexed land, so this growth represents growth of the city itself, and not suburban sprawl. 1/2

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William Hazen

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Folks, the time is almost here. The South Shore Line announced just minutes ago that busing will end effective April 9th.

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William Hazen

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In order not to rehash what has already been said, I focused my remarks on the history of transit in Indianapolis, wherein Indianapolis formerly had dedicated lanes & center boarding. I noted the last time the street was rebuilt was when it was maintained by the transit system.

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William Hazen

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I fully expect the Midwest weather to cooperate with everyone’s plans to view the total solar eclipse

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