Kendall Knoke – The B Square

City of Bloomington project engineer Kendall Knoke explains the contract revision with CrossRoad Engineers, for preliminary design work. (July 15, 2024)

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Lot numbering from the Hopewell masterplan

Bloomington’s planned new Hopewell neighborhood is supposed to replace the former IU Health hospital at 2nd and Rogers streets and extend to the surrounding area.

Based on Monday’s update to Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) from city controller Jessica McClellan, the project has already expended about $17.8 million of the roughly $28 million in TIF (tax increment finance) revenue that the RDC has committed to the project.

At Monday’s meeting, the RDC approved several Hopewell-related agenda items that add about $318,000 to the total expenditures for the project—for demolition, preliminary infrastructure design work, relocation of power lines, and for street lighting. Continue reading “Hopewell update: Bloomington OKs $318K more for demolition, prelim infra design, lighting” →

Bloomington bicycle and pedestrian safety commission members Mitch Rice and Kori Renn hold up an example of one of the low-rise traffic barriers so that their colleague Rob Danzman can see it on Zoom. (Dec. 11, 2023)

3rd Street looking east (Dec. 11, 2023)

BPSC meeting from left: Ann Edmonds, Kendall Knoke, Hank Duncan, and Ryan Robling (Dec. 12, 2023)

The bicycle lane on the right side of 3rd Street as it runs along the southern boundary of the Indiana University campus will likely get a harder edge sometime in 2024.

The plan is to install several 2.5-foot long 6-inch tall traffic barriers where there is currently only a painted line, to designate the bicycle lane along the two-lane, one-way westbound street.

The somewhat experimental project was presented to the bicycle and pedestrian safety commission (BPSC) at its Monday night meeting for comment and review, but not a vote. BPSC is not the decision making authority for the project.

The bike-lane barriers could get a decision by the board of public works at its final meeting of the year, on Dec. 19. Continue reading “Transportation notebook: 3rd Street bicycle lane south of IU campus slated for harder edge” →