Michiana Area Council of Governments

The Interurban Trolley could see an eight-percent service reduction in the coming months. Transit Planner Aidan McHugh told MACOG’s Transportation Technical Advisory Committee on Wednesday that a draft plan would eliminate 11 of the top 15 least cost-effective trips.

“In a lot of these locations, we’re removing traffic signals in very rural, kind of isolated locations where we have a tendency to kind of create a [speed] yo-yo effect for vehicles and especially trucks,” INDOT Deputy Commissioner Jason Kaiser told the Michiana Area Council of Governments’ Policy Board on Wednesday.

Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph Counties had a combined 442 crashes resulting in serious injury or death last year, according to data presented during Wednesday’s meeting of the Michiana Area Council of Governments’ Transportation Technical Advisory Committee.

The St. Joseph County Council voted to delay by at least a month a vote on creating a land bank program to more quickly redevelop long-vacant lots.

Michiana Area Council of Governments Transportation Director Caitlin Stevens says projects that are included in the report could have better odds of winning federal funding.

Bicycling advocates hope the new Go574 app will help entice more people to try pedaling to work next week, and riding for fun and exercise anytime.