{"id":13048,"date":"2018-01-30T06:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=13048"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:29","slug":"why-has-the-nbg-moved-to-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/01\/30\/why-has-the-nbg-moved-to-indianapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has the NBG moved to Indianapolis?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After my five years in Ireland raising my son Cayo till he was four years old, the National Bicycle Greenway organization that I got nonprofit status for in 1993, was disarrayed and had lost a lot of\u00a0 its luster. I returned to America in 2015 to Davis, CA, thinking I could bring the burn back with a relaunch from what some people refer to as the “Bike Capital of America”. Well, in terms of bicycle facilities, on a per square mile (only 9) or per capita (65K) basis, Davis has no equal (HERE<\/a>\u00a0 are all the biking amenities) . However surrounded on all four sides by farmland, as I-80 (what the Lincoln Hwy that I will talk about later, yielded to) thunders through it, not only is its human power infrastructure built out, but almost like an island, even tiny bits of\u00a0 its example are\u00a0 extremely hard to replicate, even in the three tiny farm towns ten miles away. This while Sacramento, the state capital, at only 12 miles away, offers an inhospitable bike connection (much of it directly adjacent to the Interstate) only navigable by the most hardy of cyclists.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Nor was Davis an attractive destination for those who may have come from out of town to the national events I tried to stage there. In the summer, when most people do their bike rides, Davis, a college town\/ bedroom community, rolls up the sidewalks of its small downtown well before noon. It just gets so hot there that locals defer to their air conditioned homes, cars, offices or classrooms. Unlike Indianapolis, the Greenway Capital of America\u00a0<\/strong>(and a city with the most bike friendly downtown in the world<\/strong>, see postscript), where in the summer, people outside are everywhere, Davis is like a ghost town quietly filled with the well manicured yards of\u00a0an outsized preponderance of large-sized\u00a0homes.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Well before I ended up in what I thought was America’s top bicycle heaven, in the 1990\u2019s, while I was in the far more temperate San Francisco Bay Area, as I watched Ray Irvin, globally known as Mr Greenway, transform a dying Rust Belt City with Greenways, I also listened to him gush about the all new Indianapolis Greenway scene that was beginning to emerge. And when I saw it for myself last August (2017), I knew this was where the NBG and I needed to be.<\/span><\/div>\n

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When I was in Ireland (2010-2015) doing research for my book, \u201cHow America Can Bike and Grow Rich, the National Bicycle Greenway in Action<\/a>\u201d (HBGR), I acquired an in depth understanding of the road that built America, the Lincoln Highway. It was then that I became aware that Indianapolis is where the movement for it began. And the force who led the charge for it was a former bike shop owner named Carl Fisher, who in 1909 had already honored Mayor Bookwalter’s request for a speedway with the world famous Indy 500 car racing track. Also in 1909, the 5-story Fisher Automobile Company was completed. Not only would it give birth to Indianapolis Auto Row which, for many blocks, dominated its downtown, but it would serve as the office and braintrust for the national highway he foresaw.<\/span><\/div>\n

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In HBGR, in the chapter,\u00a0\u201cLessons Learned from America\u2019s First Coast to Coast \"ScreenHighway in Building the NBG\u201d<\/a>, I talk about how Fisher established the Lincoln Highway Administration (LHA) to build will for his vision of a coast-to-coast car road with Indianapolis at its center. From here, once the home of 97 different car manufacturers, he promoted tirelessly and the red line he drew on a map connecting Indianapolis with San Francisco became a reality in July of 1913 when his Indianapolis based organization used 17 cars and two trucks as a part of the\u00a01,700 mile Hoosier Tour (also called the Indiana\u2013Pacific Indiana Automobile Manufacturers Association Tour)\u00a0to blaze the exact route they would work to flesh out. From Washington, DC to the Mississippi River, the route was already known. They would rely on the National Road signed into law by Thomas Jefferson in 1806. West of the Mississippi, however, their alignment was forced to rely on old stage coach lines, some of the transcontinental railroad right of way and old Indian and wildlife trails, all lightly etched out in the dirt. The LHA then went on to rally America around the Lincoln with everything from encouraging church sermons and poetry about it to noteworthy national Boy Scout participation,\u00a0a weekly radio show, even a World War I victory celebration on it that included a young Gen. Eisenhower, etc, etc, all as directed from Indianapolis.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The Lincoln reached from Times Square in New York City to the World’s Fair\u00a0in San Francisco\u00a0in 1915 as a smorgasbord of different roads, most all of them, as we just saw, dirt west of the Mississippi. As they continued to work to make their cost to coast highway real, Fisher and his group, also had the added financial support from his friends, Thomas Edison,\u00a0former U.S. President\u00a0Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0\u00a0Woodrow Wilson<\/a>, the first U.S. President to make frequent use of an automobile for relaxation.\u00a0By invoking the image of Abraham Lincoln, the LHA had succeeded at making it seem patriotic for people from all walks of life to drive, and as more and more motorists, in their newly minted automobiles, flocked to it every year, the Lincoln Hwy sparked a road building frenzy that continued unchecked all over the USA well into the 1970’s. Ultimately, as America’s love affair with the car and the highways built to accommodate it continued to explode, the Lincoln got swallowed up by the numbered highways of the Federal Highway Administration. And like many big cities in the USA, Indianapolis got run over by all the cars its Lincoln success had engendered before it then started to die as all forms of manufacturing began to leave the country in the 70’s and 80’s.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This is where Ray Irvin began to make a difference. In the early 90\u2019s he started building the internationally recognized Indy Greenways network. And by the end of the millennium,\u00a0 as more and more Greenways got added, more and more jobs and young people began to flock to Indianapolis. How could they not? In addition to the 18-mile long Monon Trail, the downtown canal towpath Ray helped turn into a place of magic and the world renowned, 8-mile Indianapolis\u00a0Cultural Trail that reenergized many of the sidewalks Indy merchants do their business from, these and other greenway trophies continue to make Indianapolis central look like one giant college campus.\u00a0In this podcast<\/a><\/b>\u00a0– (transcription<\/strong><\/a>), Ray Irvin prophecized this in 2006 when I did an interview with him. To the green and the play that is everywhere, add the fact that as the Crossroads of America that 50% of the USA is all within an 8-hour car drive, and you will see why Indianapolis has become such a powerful magnet to workers who bring innovation and exciting youthful energy to this city.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As for myself, a few months ago, in keeping faith with aligning our\u00a0National Bicycle\"ScreenGreenway effort with the power of the Lincoln Highway that built the America we know today, because homes are still so surprisingly affordable here, I was able to buy a\u00a019th Century Victorian farmhouse just a few blocks from Washington Street, aka, US 40, the original National Road! Surrounded by history, I am, for example, seven or so blocks from the old<\/span><\/p>\n

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Duesenberg Motorworks factory<\/a>. Legendary as a regular winner in the early days of the\u00a0 Indy 500 speedway, their\u00a0 luxury automobiles selling for as much as a quarter million dollars in 2018 value, were the finest money could buy. In fact, from 1919 to 1937 the Duesenberg was the Rolls Royce of its day and was the source of the saying, “it’s a Duesy!” used to describe the best of the best.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am also less than a mile away from the bridge that has now become a center of play for\u00a0Indianapolis locals. In crossing the\u00a0lazy\u00a0White River, the old Washington St Bridge<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>of 1870 (it replaced the wood covered National Road bridge of 1834), once stood out as the gateway to the downtown\u00a0Indianapolis Auto Row we talked about earlier. Now, however, under Ray Irvin’s direction, the bridge has become a tastefully designed promenade that is always filled with people and activity as it connects the\u00a0Indianapolis Zoo to White River State Park (WRSP) that Ray also helped to bring about. Situated at the foot of downtown and the widely popular Indianapolis Cultural Trail<\/span> (Virtual Tour<\/a>)<\/strong>, WRSP, besides a summer concert series also features 3 and 4-wheel bike rentals, a community garden, sprawling lawns and direct access to the beginning of the world class Indy Canal that is complete with gondolas, paddle boats, world class museums and a myriad of fountains, etc.<\/span><\/div>\n

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As for\u00a0 the Indianapolis Cultural Trail (ICT) that I touched on above, as a piece of bicycle infrastructure unlike any, anywhere else in the world,\u00a0 I could not keep the\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway in California after I rode it. On specially groomed sidewalks, as business was being done several yards away, the way the curbs were cut and the lights were timed, etc, I felt like, as a cyclist, I was wanted here. Or, as Ray Irvin says, the ICT is a showcase of how the businesses of the future will all operate – car visits will not be encouraged, but human powered ones will. As the genuine prophet that Ray is, he says that to be successful in the imminent future, your storefront will have to be on a people powered throughway – it will have to be bike friendly.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On the ICT, the smooth surface of a handsome, red brick has replaced the concrete \"Screensidewalks that pass ten or so feet away from the front doors of a myriad of eateries, hotels, drinking establishments, coffee and thrift shops, fitness facilities and etc. Add beautiful landscaping and tastefully designed interpretive signage that call out everything from Civil War battles to historical events that took place at the locations they herald and you will feel drawn into a keener awareness of your surroundings as time also begins to slow down. You will also sense what we would like to see become a nationwide reality.<\/span><\/div>\n

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In all 19 of our other NBG Anchor cities<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 that form the dots that connect\u00a0San Francisco with Washington, DC, Cultural Trails need to be established in each of them so, as I will show you, the bicycle visitor\u00a0 becomes a desired part of the business and transportation mix. With such a way of moving people about, not only will tourism explode as the unique character of each of our cities will be placed on display, but new trails will be launched from them as people powered users yearn for ways to reach to and from them from north, south, east and west further and further away.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In knowing how to turn all of its human powered play play into an economic engine, while all the businesses throughout the immediate area flourish, a sign on a state office building high above all of this, like Ray Irvin, sounds prophetic. It reads:<\/span><\/div>\n

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As its tax coffers are enriched with all the dollars all this greenway activity generates, the State expertly supports it with jobs that maintain and administer it. Toward that end, during the warmer 3\/4 of the year, Indianapolis is a hub of government as well as private sponsored liveliness! Lawn cutters and trail sweepers and maintainers of street furniture, etc, all busy about as tents for events are constructed, temporary fencing and wiring are deployed and vendors add more and more two, three and four wheel bikes to all the ones that all happily scurry about.<\/span><\/div>\n

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In honoring such fun, because\u00a0Indianapolis residents know their own personal income streams are directly or indirectly affected by play, with greenways setting the lead, they make allowance for the slower moving inconvenience cyclists may cause them. Motorists in\u00a0Indianapolis downtown slow for cyclists and tend to take greater care when passing us. They seem to know to look for us entering the roadway in unexpected places.<\/span><\/div>\n

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There is a consciousness for not just cyclists here but also greenways. Locals have come to learn the value we bring to a community, so the pathways\u00a0 and their users are taken seriously. Where they cross roads, added caution is conferred upon these areas.\u00a0 All along the Monon Trail for example, there are intersections. Almost as if it is built into their conditioning, car drivers all tend to slow and exercise greater care once they reach them.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Despite the fact that the economic turndown of 2009 pushed Ray off to Florida where he is making a living off of his second passion, sailing, the greenway building infrastructure he established is still in place. As such Indy Greenways remains active in building new Indianapolis\u00a0greenways, as fueled by the rock solid Greenways Foundation. What that means is that there is still a funding mechanism that keeps an active dialogue with funders of large projects. This as Indy Greenways still has its database of on the ground greenway construction firms. And because of its work with the many\u00a0Indianapolis universities, it also knows where to look for the studies these schools have done about how to overcome NIMBY objections (which almost don’t exist anymore) as well as document the increase in property values for those in close proximity to greenways, etc. What all this means, as our\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway looks to nationalize their success, is that a lot of the tools we will be in need of are already here waiting to be built upon!<\/span><\/div>\n

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Some final words about\u00a0Indianapolis are in order here. I am riding more here than I ever did in California as I join all ages and fitness levels of cyclists here. Nor is a fixed gear bike or lycra wear required to establish oneself as a legitimate user of the local roads and paths. Nor do enthusiasts only ride in groups on back roads on “training rides”. Cyclists here don’t seem to be in competition with one another. The transportation cyclist, racer, commuter or recreational cyclist don’t seem to stand apart from one another because it is just so big here. There are not coffee shops that collect a certain kind of cyclist because the greenways encourage everyone here to try their hand at bike riding and\u00a0 as their roles switch back and forth, motorists and bike riders don’t seem so committed to differentiating themselves from one another..<\/span><\/div>\n

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What also seems to help is that it is\u00a0 not congested here, Users of the road are\u00a0 not fighting each other over who gets to use what parts of it. Here there are as many roads to choose from as there is open space. If you don’t like the pace on one, a few turns will find you on another. Nor is everyone here rushing to get to a freeway. This is so, because with the exception of the one that rings its perimeter about ten miles away, most of the city is free of freeways.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the perspective of my life as a native of the\u00a0San Francisco East Bay area, imagine an area from the base of the Hayward hills, across the Bay to the\u00a0 base of the San Mateo hills south to the base of the Mountain View hills back across the Bay to the base of the Milpitas hills with only one freeway fed by a tiny feeder and that is\u00a0Indianapolis. Contrast that with at least five freeway arterials in the Bay Area segment I outlined and you will see what I mean by cars and their noise forming the dominant role in an area. One would think that with the Indy 500 Speedway, cars would be king here, but they are not!<\/span><\/div>\n

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In\u00a0San Francisco, there are\u00a018,580 people\u00a0per square mile, or 870,887 people spread out over 49 square miles.<\/span><\/div>\n
In\u00a0Indianapolis, there are\u00a02,328\u00a0people per square mile or 855,164 people spread out over\u00a0 366 square miles.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Another thing that calms people down here is the very active arts scene. Unlike California, where people are afraid to expend their time making things that won’t help them pay their exorbitant rents or mortgages, galleries and artists and organizations formed to supports the arts abound here. As a proven therapy, not only does\u00a0art soothe one’s nerves, but it helps to keep people off the streets as it adds to the open space and nature’s green that have a prolific presence here.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Nor can one ignore the impact of the Major Taylor Velodrome<\/strong>. As a venue managed by Marian University<\/strong>, the top college bike racing team in the nation<\/em>, the bicycle speedway, just like the Indy 500 did for cars, is more and more establishing\u00a0Indianapolis as the bicycle center of America. With a track to help them showcase their wares, national bike component manufacturers\u00a0 such as SRAM, Zipp, TruTrainer, Blue Rub and Silca have all brought their operations here. And as this world class raceway also brings in top bike racing teams from all over America and the world, not only is the city jumping in to support it, but\u00a0greater and greater numbers of bike riders from far and wide are getting the chance to see first hand the bicycle heaven that can be found here.<\/span><\/div>\n

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If I would have stayed in California, I would have achieved great NBG success if I would have reached the state line at South Lake Tahoe. Nevada. And since the preponderance of cyclists west of the Mississippi were either south of me in the\u00a0San Francisco Bay area, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego or north of me in Sacramento , Chico, Arcata, Eugene, Portland and Seattle, I was often tempted to devote NBG energy to calling for\u00a0 a West Coast Greenway. Being in\u00a0Indianapolis, now however, I am a\u00a0 little over a hundred miles from the powerful bicycle beacon of Chicago. This while our next NBG Anchor City, Cincinnati, is one hundred miles to the east, Columbus another 100 miles and Pittsburgh, the bicycle gateway to Washington DC, 300 Car Free miles away,\u00a0 also a little over a hundred. miles from Columbus. Instead of being a pipe dream a continent away from making the\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway real, the goalpost, Washington DC, is now within reach as we work to connect it to San Francisco!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Post script:<\/strong> My last year of daily riding here has shown me that\u00a0Indianapolis has the most bike friendly downtown in the world<\/strong>!!\u00a0 In coming full circle from its former car centric ways,\u00a0Indianapolis is also, for me, where my grandfather and great grandfather were born (1859, 1888) !!<\/span><\/p>\n

I have also created this 5-minute video Virtual Tour<\/strong><\/a> of the\u00a0Indianapolis\u00a0Cultural Trail, the only Downtown Greenway in the World<\/strong>!!\u00a0 Coming soon, as well, is my new book:<\/span>
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\n<\/span>This book endeavors to change the nation\u2019s perception of Indianapolis as being a place filled with speeding automobiles. I will be using the words ahead to show why I moved here from San Francisco as a way to make the National Bicycle Greenway real. You see, in the last twenty years, because of its internationally renowned Greenway system that is fed by its globally celebrated, downtown Cultural Trail, the only one of its kind in the world, Indianapolis now offers the most bike friendly downtown in America!<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon, you will see how, in coming full circle back to being a top place for cyclists, it was the bicycle, its clubs, racers and industry captains that helped make Indianapolis the world\u2019s original leader in the early years of gasoline powered transport. You will also learn how one dynamic man, Carl Fisher, used his successes in the universe of pedal power to make the car the ruler king it then went on to become.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book will show you how the transportation innovations Indianapolis brings about <\/span><\/p>\n

continue to affect the face of the Nation. From the nearby Lewis and Clark starting point, to Fisher filling the region with first HiWheel then conventional bicycles, to its revolutionizing train travel with implementing the first union train station in the world, to one of its companies making chain affordable enough that bicycles could be sized down to where they could be stood over, to another one of its businesses (run by Fisher) making it affordable to drive a car past sundown, to it bringing about the first car highway to connect the coasts (led by Fisher), Indianapolis has always stood at the forefront of how we as an American people move about.<\/span><\/p>\n

In laying a foundation for showing you how it was the actions that took place in Indianapolis that brought about the America we now know, I will use the beginning of this book to take you through the timeline of a short history of long distance travel in America. It also won\u2019t be long in the first chapter, before I also tell you about what was needed before cars could even exist to then enjoy the roads that would bring the Western frontier into the 20th century. Building on this, in the next chapter, you will see the part one still flourishing Indianapolis company, Diamond Chain, played in making a part that most all machines, whether powered by humans or by motors, need even today.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the Crossroads of America where half of the nation is now within an 8-hour car drive, this book will show how it was Fisher who gave purpose to long distance driving. You will see how he got Americans everywhere to help him build the first road across an entire continent. The Lincoln Highway, originated in, and developed from Indianapolis, was the first arterial to travel from the Eastern Seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will also see how Mr. Greenway, Ray Irvin, led the charge that transformed the Rust Belt City Indianapolis had gone on to become into its now being known as the Greenway Capital of America. As an extension of Irvin\u2019s work, the 10-mile Indianapolis Cultural Trail is what we will be keying off of as we endeavor to connect the coasts for cyclists.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time you have finished this book, you will understand why I need to be here so I can relaunch the National Bicycle Greenway from where Greenways are a known and valued commodity. In daily using and learning about the Cultural Trail, I look forward to locals helping me devise a formula that establishes Downtown Greenways in all 19 of our other NBG Anchor cities that connect San Francisco to Washington, DC. With such a template in place, the NBG can help cities show themselves off as they attract bicycle visitors from all over the nation and world. It will be this new tourist economy that will inspire bikeways to and from these population centers as they also use them to connect to one another with the result, in time, of what we have long foreseen, the National Bicycle Greenway!<\/span><\/p>\n

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