An Indianapolis City-Council committee on Thursday evening voted to regulate businesses that rent out the dockless electric scooters that have caught on quickly since popping up around the city in the past two weeks.
With its new program rolling out Thursday, contractors around the country can launch independent businesses that deliver Amazon packages.
Some of Republic Services Inc.’s Indianapolis-area recycling customers will soon experience a big spike in their bills—some to the tune of a 100 percent increase.
City-County Council members are poised to put regulations on the motorized electric scooters that have been zipping around downtown over the past two weeks.
The project will close both directions of Interstate 65 between the Meridian Street and 21st Street exits starting next week.
Lime follows electric scooter company Bird, which entered the Indianapolis market on June 15 by dropping its dockless scooters downtown, in Irvington and along Massachusetts Avenue. City officials are working on developing rules for such devices.
The French capital on Thursday canceled its contract with Bollore after the company predicted losses totaling $348 million over the next five years and asked for taxpayers to pick up much of the cost.
IndyGo is expected to back off plans to purchase electric buses this year to replace the mass-transit system’s older diesel fleet, saying electric-vehicle technology is not yet good enough to meet its needs.
City code enforcement officials sent the company a letter asking them to halt their service for 30 days while the city works out a regulatory scheme that would tackle dockless bike and scooter sharing.
The Indianapolis effort is one of six around the country that has been selected to receive a year’s worth of free consulting services to help it develop its plan.
Private-jet buyers are coming out of hiding, encouraged by expanding businesses and lower corporate tax rates.
The proposal, approved unanimously, will allow the Department of Public Works to purchase equipment as well as hire an additional 36 people, or six crews, to perform street maintenance work.
Construction work should be starting soon on a project that will widen or repave a 14-mile section of Interstate 69 northeast of Indianapolis.
The state is required to study interstate tolling options under the 2017 road-funding plan, which raised gas taxes.
As it continues to investigate a salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut melons from an Indianapolis-based fruit distributor, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added 15 states to the list of potentially affected states.
The proposed transportation system would whisk people between downtown Chicago and O'Hare International Airport at speeds of up to 150 mph.
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Wednesday the grants are among $677 million in airport infrastructure grants the Federal Aviation Administration is awarding nationally.
Longtime local entrepreneur Jim Sapp is revving up for expansion of his latest venture: Commercial Self Storage, a company geared to business customers.
The Indianapolis-based system has spent $9 million on the “high-tech integrated service center,” but hopes to save up to $3 million a year through standardizing inventory, ordering in bulk at a discount, and streamlining delivery routes.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is considering early termination of the firm’s contract with the city, amid widening losses and criticism that the vehicles are poorly maintained and dirty.
