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Speedway to build sidewalk and crossing signals on Crawfordsville Road near Coles with MPO grant
Summary
Town of Speedway officials said the town has bid a project to add sidewalks, a traffic signal and a HAWK midblock crossing at Crawfordsville Road near the Coles entrance. The work is funded by a roughly $2,000,000 Metropolitan Planning Organization grant received in 2021; town staff said construction could finish by the end of the year.
Street Commissioner Rob Wednite and Town Manager Grant Kleinhenz said the Town of Speedway has bid a project to add sidewalks and crossing signals on Crawfordsville Road at the entrance to Coles, funded by a roughly $2,000,000 grant from the Metropolitan Planning Organization. "This is, part of the area where we'll be opening new projects, sidewalk projects...down to Cole's entrance," Wednite said.
The project will include a full traffic signal and a HAWK (High-intensity Activated crossWalK) midblock crossing to connect pedestrians to the P And E Trail, officials said. "There'll be a traffic signal directly behind us, and there will be a hawk signal off to the west of us," Kleinhenz said, adding that the HAWK is "very similar to what's on Lyndhurst for the beginning of the trail." The work is intended to provide a safer crossing for shoppers and residents traveling to the nearby shopping center.
Town officials said the grant was awarded in 2021 and that the town completed bidding this year. "We received this grant in 2021...And now 4 years later, we're we bid the project. We're ready to get going on construction. The project should be wrapped up potentially by the end of the year," Kleinhenz said. He described the effort as "a huge improvement" for pedestrian safety on the four-lane road.
Officials characterized the current work as phase 1 of a two-phase corridor project. Phase 1 covers the south side connection to the Coles entrance and the trail crossing; a future phase would address the north side and extend toward Lyndhurst, town staff said. "This is phase 1 probably of a 2 phase project...The north side has no sidewalk, so that will probably be phase 2," Kleinhenz said. No timeline or funding source for the second phase was specified.
Town staff also said they held public input meetings in spring 2024 when design was about 70% complete and that some public concerns were addressed where possible as required by the grant funding source. "We did listen to some of those concerns...It was good to meet with the public and show some of the vision of what the project could be," Kleinhenz said.
For questions about the project, Wednite provided a town phone number and Kleinhenz provided the town manager's office number. "If you have any questions, you can contact me at (317) 246-4142 or you can contact Grant Kleinhenz at (317) 246-4100," Wednite said.
The town did not record any formal vote or ordinance on the project in this segment; officials described the project status (grant awarded, bid complete, construction pending) and next steps. No construction start date was specified in the remarks.
