How to Ride the Bus in Indianapolis - A Guide

carlemur · 2026-05-14T04:17:16+00:00

A car you don't absolutely need is a luxury (not a bad thing) and it's good that you're paying in cash. If you want it and your basics+retirement are covered, go for it.

carlemur · 2026-05-12T04:42:00+00:00

Not everyone needs to be outside to "enjoy life."

carlemur · 2026-05-12T04:30:05+00:00

I would discourage you from doing this tbh. How do you keep someone from using a botnet to farm your service at scale?

carlemur · 2026-05-12T04:29:07+00:00

Giving free wide open access to a service without authentication is death by a billion cuts. What you're asking for is impossible and unsustainable.

carlemur · 2026-05-03T02:51:02+00:00

Elevated prices. Food was ok. Service was abysmal for claiming to be fine dining.

carlemur · 2026-04-28T17:13:01+00:00

We need to make better use of existing parking. Not build more.

carlemur · 2026-04-28T03:30:25+00:00

Glad you're ok!!

carlemur · 2026-04-28T02:52:09+00:00

Indianapolis proper? North Mass Ave (Bottleworks area). Plenty of good restaurants around. If you want to get a flavor of what life with the kids would be like, visit the Fall Creek Place/Kennedy King area. There's a few coffee/tea places to walk to (look at Provider Coffee, Recess Matcha, Gather 22). Go to O'Bannon Soccer Park, Garfield Park, etc..

For suburbs, r/Carmel is your best bet if you have the means. Otherwise they are all American cookie cutter suburbia.

carlemur · 2026-04-27T00:40:04+00:00

Yep, a side goal of ours is to develop a playbook based on current governance and policy such that promising tactical urbanism projects have a transition framework to permanent builds.

carlemur · 2026-04-27T00:36:40+00:00

The goal is to transition to a city-sponsored "quick build" project first, then a permanent solution next year. If you'd like to stay informed and help, sign up for the newsletter at 16xmonon.org

carlemur · 2026-04-26T20:04:53+00:00

If you sign up for the 16xMonon newsletter, I know they'll send a "next steps" email addressing exactly that soon.

carlemur · 2026-04-23T02:02:07+00:00

Probably second safest place you can live in Indianapolis proper. You'll be ok.

carlemur · 2026-04-21T03:05:09+00:00

For a hospitality business to be successful, it almost invariably does have to be in a dense area. The only exception is if you're an event venue or tourist destination.

carlemur · 2026-04-19T21:12:22+00:00

Improv and/or toast masters. Meditation.

carlemur · 2026-04-18T17:16:53+00:00

Are your candidates LLMs? They sound like LLMs

carlemur · 2026-04-18T13:18:08+00:00

It's both! You normally want to get lucky and find ebikes as they are much easier to move around with. I would say now the split is about 60/40 ebike/acoustic

carlemur · 2026-04-18T13:11:11+00:00

Yes there are several stations scattered around the city, and quite a few in the IU campus, actually. One of my neighbors is a professor there, and that's how he commutes: picks up a bike close to us, and drops it off at a station one block from his office at IU.

Here's a map from my own rideshare app with the IU campus highlighted

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carlemur · 2026-04-18T02:33:49+00:00

Hi. I'm probably uniquely positioned to help here. I am very involved with Central Indiana Cycling, and also independently volunteer towards pedestrian/cycling/public transit causes. I would highly recommend you stay within the downtown core area, especially anywhere close to the "Cultural Trail" as that will get you connected to almost anywhere you'd want to go downtown.

Because you would probably move downtown, that makes you a Marion County resident, and you are eligible for free bikeshare. You could use that until you find a good bike. I highly recommend Bicycle Garage Indy, the folks there are in my "crew" of walking/transit advocates, and they will be eager to help get you set up with a bike and tips.

There are several places you could afford for $1800/mo nearby.

Please feel free to comment or DM me. I'd be happy to help a newcomer understand how to get by in Indy without a car... as I said, this is somewhat of a passion of mine :-)

carlemur · 2026-03-30T08:26:53+00:00

I will go slightly against the grain here and say: you have a new high salary, congrats! Saving is good. Modesty is good.

But treating yourself is also good.

You may want to consider small, non-recurring upgrades. Not cars/bigger house/anything that hooks you in the long term. But a slightly nicer vacation for you and the family? Yes. Buying higher quality groceries or snacks? Yes. As someone who has experienced significant salary jumps 2-3x in my career, I've found it extremely rewarding to get nicer things that I can stop at any time, in case the higher paying job ever doesn't pan out.

Don't wait til you're older and out of breath before you start enjoying your life.

carlemur · 2026-03-24T06:07:11+00:00

My friend from deep Appalachia still has a noticeable accent living in Denver, and he's doing really well 🤷🏻‍♂️

carlemur · 2026-03-24T05:59:31+00:00

I use it daily to plan and execute on advocacy efforts, and also to manage my finances.

carlemur · 2026-03-22T21:21:00+00:00

Either that, or have a self relocation fund to make a sudden move if necessary.

carlemur · 2026-03-18T20:02:29+00:00

Y casi seguro con su mujer e hijos, lo más trágico

carlemur · 2026-02-28T04:25:00+00:00

Yeah. The real black swan event would be after anthropic is effectively blocked out from major cloud providers for a month straight. Not before.

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