These Indianapolis-area road projects could impact your commute in 2025

Drivers in Central Indiana are used to seeing road construction projects as they commute from place to place, especially driving in Indianapolis. While 2024 was a busy year for the Indianapolis Department of Public Works the next 12 months are just as packed with roads, ramps and bridges being built or rehabilitated.

Here’s what Hoosiers in the capital city can expect to see during their commute soon.

16th Street bridge over White River

The bridge has spanned White River for decades but it is overdue for repairs, according to the city. The bridge is set to close next summer. The hope is to extend the life of the historic arch bridge and improve the aesthetics by addressing the spalling concrete in the arches, corbels and bridge deck.

Estimated cost: $17.6 million

Estimated timeline: Summer 2025 to Winter 2027

29th and 30th Streets

The two streets are currently three-lane one-way roads on the city’s westside. The Department of Public Works is turning them into two-way conversion street pairs for 29th Street from White River to Central Avenue and 30th Street from White River Parkway East Drive to Meridian Street.

Estimated cost: $20.2 million

Estimated timeline: Spring 2025 to Winter 2026

Eagle Creek Greenway

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The next phase in a plan to improve the trails in Eagle Creek consists of creating a 1.29-mile extension to the existing Eagle Creek Greenway. It will begin at the intersection of Eagle Creek and US-136 and continue southeast along Eagle Creek to the B&O Trail.

The project consists of on and off-road facilities for pedestrians, cyclists, and other non-motorized forms of transportation, including sidewalks, bicycle infrastructure, pedestrian and bicycle signals, traffic calming techniques, lighting, and other safety-related infrastructure, bikeshare system, and ADA compliance.

Estimated Cost: $5.6 million

Estimated Timeline: Fall 2025 to Winter 2026

Drainage improvements along Bluff Road

Drainage improvements will help relieve flooding by revitalizing the structure of the drainage systems in the ground on the city’s southside.

Overtime structures can be damaged, deteriorated or needing to meet new city requirements and this project will improve safety and performance in the event of flash flooding on Bluff Road from Wicker Road to Thompson Road.

Estimated Cost: $12.2 million

Estimated Timeline: Spring 2025 to Fall 2026

Drainage improvements on Kentucky Avenue

Drainage improvements will help relieve flooding by revitalizing the structure of the drainage systems in the ground on the city’s southside. The same thing will be happening on Kentucky Avenue from Mann Road to Raymond Street

Estimated Cost: $10.5 million

Estimated Timeline: Spring 2025 to the end of the year

Fountain Square area drainage improvements

The goal of this project is to relieve flooding concerns around the intersections of Virginia Avenue, Prospect Avenue, Shelby Street and Morris Street. The project includes a new separate storm sewer line extending along Shelby Street from Pleasant Run Creek to the south to Woodlawn Avenue to the north. The storm sewer is being sized to accommodate future expansion into adjacent areas, the city said.

Estimated Cost: $19.8 million

Estimated Timeline: Summer 2025 to Fall 2029

Girls School Road upgrades

City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development’s West Side Complete Streets Projects will provide one rehabilitated lane of traffic in each direction with two-way left turn lanes, a multi-purpose on one side, and landscaped setbacks with tree lawns that could support improved storm water drainage.

Estimated Cost: $27.5 million

Estimated Timeline: Fall 2025 to Spring 2027

Lafayette Road over Little Eagle Creek

This will be a bridge rehabilitation that will repair the existing arches and spandrel walls and construct a partial new asphalt roadway, bridge railings and sidewalks.

Estimated Cost: $1.9 million

Estimated Timeline: Spring 2025 to the end of the year.

East side Streetscape

Including a streetscape, intersection safety improvements and placemaking efforts, this project will the happen along 10th Street from Tecumseh Street to Rural Street and along Rural Street from 10th Street to St. Clair Street. This includes the addition of a multi-use path, improved sidewalks and ADA ramps, storm water management, lighting, and intersection re-alignment of 10th and Rural.

Estimated Cost: $18.2 million

Estimated Timeline: Summer 2025 to Fall 2026

Pleasant Run Greenway project

This project will rehabilitate the existing 6.9-mile Pleasant Run Greenway Trail between Garfield Park and Ellenberger Park, which will include pavement rehabilitation, crossing improvements, new pavement markings, and upgrades to signage and trail amenities.

It’ll also include the rehabilitation of the pedestrian boardwalk under Raymond Street, the replacement of the pedestrian bridge connecting to Pleasant Run Greenway just north of Raymond Street and the replacement of the pedestrian bridge at Ellenberger Park.

Estimated Cost: $4.3 million

Estimated Timeline: Summer 2025 to the end of the year

Jade Jackson is a Public Safety Reporter for the Indianapolis Star. You can email her at Jade.Jackson@IndyStar.com and follow her on X, formally Twitter @IAMJADEJACKSON.

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