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INDOT briefs council committee on sidewalk prioritization, scoring projects by safety, equity and transit access
Summary
Marty Sewell, INDOT's transportation planning director, told the council committee INDOT uses four primary criteria — safety, connectivity, equity and access to transit — to score sidewalk project corridors and that a three-year work plan is updated every 2–3 years; staff answered questions on quick-build funding, interagency coordination and staffing.
Marty Sewell, INDOT's transportation planning director, briefed the council committee on how INDOT prioritizes sidewalk projects, saying the agency bases its initial screening on the countywide walk & bike master plan and scores corridors by “safety, connectivity, equity considerations, and then access to transit.”
Sewell told the committee the walk & bike plan, last updated in 2022, established a priority sidewalk network and that INDOT develops a three-year sidewalk work plan using those prioritization scores as a key input. He said the work plan then layers five additional practical factors — project cost and budget, feasibility, severity of critical needs, constructability and delivery timeline — when deciding which projects to advance in any given year.
“The work plan identified its…
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