Monon Trail

News 8's Kat Sandoval explains why not everyone is happy about the changes.

This stretch of 86th Street near Monon Trail is about to get a makeover.

But for drivers, that means navigating through construction and an extended median.

Happy to see construction happening to improve the roads, but a frustrating part comes when there's little to no notice.

There's a lot of rush hour traffic that goes up and down 86th Street.

And doing away with two lanes in just that few blocks is very inconvenient.

The Department of Public Works has begun construction, excavating 86th Street to install a new pedestrian refuge island, a crosswalk, and extend the medians, making it safer for pedestrians and cyclists to cross from Monon Trail.

This project will directly, um, improve traffic in this area for both vehicular traffic as well as pedestrians, um, making it a much safer corridor for people to get through.

Okay.

And then you've got, yes, the Monon Trail, which goes up to Midtown, which we call, like, America's, or Carmel's living room right there, and then go up to City Center.

And of course, then we have Civic Square by the City Hall-

Okay, yeah

Right.

And there's a lot of, yeah, the public park system is really good.

And the Monon Trail.

Yep.